{"title":"Thermoelectric Bond Development for the Flat Plate Solar Thermoelectric Generator","authors":"J. Black, F. K. Eggleston, N. Fuschillo","doi":"10.1109/TA.1965.4319868","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper treats some of the theoretical and practical aspects of problems encountered in the development of bonds to thermoelectric materials for a flat plate solar thermoelectric generator. The specific problems encountered in the design and development of a lightweight generator capable of producing 3 watts/ft2 in a variety of earth orbital attitudes are presented and approaches to their solutions are outlined. Design considerations led to the selection of a Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric material and a barrier multilayer-type bond. Performance data are presented on various kinds of bonds to Bi2Te3 alloys; at present, it appears that barrier-type bond performance is critically dependent on the perfection of the barrier layer.","PeriodicalId":13050,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Aerospace","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1965-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Transactions on Aerospace","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TA.1965.4319868","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper treats some of the theoretical and practical aspects of problems encountered in the development of bonds to thermoelectric materials for a flat plate solar thermoelectric generator. The specific problems encountered in the design and development of a lightweight generator capable of producing 3 watts/ft2 in a variety of earth orbital attitudes are presented and approaches to their solutions are outlined. Design considerations led to the selection of a Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric material and a barrier multilayer-type bond. Performance data are presented on various kinds of bonds to Bi2Te3 alloys; at present, it appears that barrier-type bond performance is critically dependent on the perfection of the barrier layer.