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Electrogradient EMF and volt-ampere characteristics of inhomogeneous systems

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This paper studies the manifestation of electrogradient effects in the shape of the voltampere characteristics (VAC) of inhomogeneous conducting sandwich structures of the SSS and MSM types (S stands for n-type semiconductor, and M for metal) during the passage of a current perpendicular to the interfaces between the materials. It is shown that on the ohmic portion of the VAC the Peltier effect in the general case causes the conductivity of the sandwich system to drop. In the region of heating currents the VAC displays segments that are quadratic with respect to the current. The case when the VAC remains linear in the region of heating currents is considered.

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  1. Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, USSR

    A. I. Vakser

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 2, pp. 125–131, February, 1978.

The author expresses his profound gratitude to Yu. G. Gurevich for his constant attention and useful discussions and to F. G. Bass for reading the manuscript and making a number of useful comments.

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Vakser, A.I. Electrogradient EMF and volt-ampere characteristics of inhomogeneous systems. Soviet Physics Journal 21, 236–240 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898493

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