The simulator models a junction between two dissimilar conducting materials and lets you toggle between two modes: applying a temperature difference to observe the Seebeck voltage that develops, or applying an electric current to observe the Peltier heating and cooling that appears at opposite ends of the junction, making visible how carrier diffusion links thermal and electrical transport.
Choose the Seebeck mode and drag the temperature sliders for the hot and cold ends of the junction to see the generated voltage update in real time, then switch to Peltier mode and adjust the applied current to watch one junction cool while the other heats, noting how reversing the current direction swaps which side cools.
Mode toggle (Seebeck or Peltier), hot-side and cold-side temperature sliders in Seebeck mode, applied current slider with direction control in Peltier mode, material pair selector, and a live readout of generated voltage or heat flow at each junction.
The Kelvin relations mean that any material pair engineered to be a better thermoelectric voltage generator is automatically also a better Peltier heat pump, so thermoelectric generator research and solid-state cooler research directly benefit from the same underlying materials advances.
The simulator models a junction between two dissimilar conducting materials and lets you toggle between two modes: applying a temperature difference to observe the Seebeck voltage that develops, or applying an electric current to observe the Peltier heating and cooling that appears at opposite ends of the junction, making visible how carrier diffusion links thermal and electrical transport.
The simulator models a junction between two dissimilar conducting materials and lets you toggle between two modes: applying a temperature difference to observe the Seebeck voltage that develops, or applying an electric current to observe the Peltier heating and cooling that appears at opposite ends of the junction, making visible how carrier diffusion links thermal and electrical transport.
Choose the Seebeck mode and drag the temperature sliders for the hot and cold ends of the junction to see the generated voltage update in real time, then switch to Peltier mode and adjust the applied current to watch one junction cool while the other heats, noting how reversing the current direction swaps which side cools.
The Kelvin relations mean that any material pair engineered to be a better thermoelectric voltage generator is automatically also a better Peltier heat pump, so thermoelectric generator research and solid-state cooler research directly benefit from the same underlying materials advances.