精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Thermoelectric Cooling - The Basics1 IntroductionAlthough thermoelectric (TE) phenomena were discovered more than 150 years ago, thermoelectric devices (TE coolers) have only been applied commercially during recent decades. For some time, commercial TECs have been developing in parallel with two mainstream directions of technical progress electronics and photonics, particularly optoelectronics and laser techniques. Lately, a dramatic increase in the application of TE sol