Abstract
It is considered the possibility of creating thermoelectric coolers for operating temperatures below 90 K. For these temperatures it is not possible to use a standard circuit of a thermoelement, consisting of two n- and p-semiconductor legs, connected in a series electrical circuit. In the area of cryogenic temperatures there is only an effective thermoelectric material of n-type conductivity, based on solid solutions Bi−Sb. In this case thermoelements composed of thermoelectric n-type leg and a passive leg, based on high temperature superconductor (HTSC) were studied. A thermoelectric cooler (module), consisting of six n-type legs (extruded crystals Bi0.91Sb0.09 ) and passive legs based on HTSC (YBa2Cu3O(7−x) ) films was designed. A magnetic field was used to increase thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of the cryogenic module. For created cryogenic module at hot side temperature Th = 80 K, a current I = 6.4 A and a voltage U = 0.10 V the maximum value of temperature drop > 13.5 K and a maximum cooling capacity Qc > 0.36 W were achieved.
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