Abstract:The new point of view of thermoelectric phenomena as a linear transport process of nonequilibrium charge carriers is presented. It is shown that Fermi quasilevels, which characterize transport in a system far from equilibrium can be nonmonotonic functions of the spatial coordinates. The role of recombination in affecting the thermoelectric phenomena is discussed for the first time. It is shown that in the presence of thermal fields there appears new terms in the expression for recombination which depends on th… Show more
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