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At any temperature thermoelectric effects in transition metals are typically an order of magnitude greater than in “simple” metals, so that at least one branch of any commercial thermocouple consists of a transition metal or alloy. It was because of this large magnitude that many of the earliest studies of thermoelectricity were made on transition metals,* with the change in slope of the temperature dependence of S at the Curie point first observed in Ni more than a century ago.l Very briefly the values of S reflect large values of dℓnσ/dε which, in turn, are due to the strong energy dependence of the density of states N(ε) close to the Fermi energy, εF.
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Greig, D. (1978). Thermoelectricity in Transition Metals. In: Blatt, F.J., Schroeder, P.A. (eds) Thermoelectricity in Metallic Conductors. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6830-5_11
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