Heat conduction in semiconductors

✍ Scribed by G. Busch; M. Schneider

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1954
• Weight: 133 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8914
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8914(54)80239-4

✦ Synopsis

We are not yet in a position to give an explanation for this fact and we think that the theory of the heat conduction in semiconductors has to be revised. Further experiments also will be necessary. Measurements on various semiconductors in the intrinsic and extrinsic range and the influence of magnetic fields are in progress.

Note added in proo/ :

Recently P. J. Price (Bull. Am. phys. Soc. 4 (1954) B2) has given a more complete theory of the electronic heat conduction of an intrinsic semiconductor taking into account the transfer of the activation energy AE. The formula however cannot explain the experimental results found for InSb.