Abstract
In order to characterize the anisotropy, measurements of thermoelectric power at ordinary temperatures have been made as a function of direction on various specimens of graphite. These included commercial polycrystalline graphite partly oriented during its manufacture, compacts of small near-ideal crystal flakes oriented by compression, well-oriented pyrolytic graphite, and natural graphite with good columnar orientation parallel to the a -axis. Measurements have also been made on the thermoelectric force between well oriented pyrolytic and polycrystalline graphite, over the temperature range 2800 to 90°K. Effects on the thermoelectric power of deliberately introducing crystal defects have been examined for crystal compounds in which the graphite acts as electron donor or electron acceptor. Results are discussed in relation to some current theories of thermoelectric power in solids.
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