Abstract

Temperature “waves,” usually degenerate to the temperature front, turn, in principle, into waves in diffuse thermoelectrics, but into waves with high attenuation, which are observed only in precision experiments. Local Thermo-EMF in semiconductor structures, exceeding diffuse thermo-EMF by three orders of magnitude, due to the high efficiency of the production of Prigogine’s Local Entropy, leads to weakly damped Thermo-Electronic Waves, leading to Resonance Effects, which allow a deeper analysis of the nonequilibrium thermodynamic characteristics of semiconductor structures and their optimization.

Keywords:Temperature waves; Diffuse seebeck and peltier effects; Prigogine local entropy production; Semiconductor structures; Thermo-electronic resonances