Topic “point probe”
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2008-02-02
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Steam battery - breath power calculator
[…] one side of it. After I gave my account, I began thinking about well-documented effects that behave similarly to the steam battery. The most prominent is the "hot-point-probe" effect I suggested previously in the "Backscatter" column, in which a p-type or n-type silicon wafer generates a current between two probes when one is hot, and the other is cold. It's similar to the Seebeck effect, but a bit more complicated, since the current can flow in either direction depending on the type of […] read