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Additive contributions to the Seebeck and Peltier coefficients made by nonequilibrium longitudinal optical phonons have been calculated. The results obtained are valid for any temperature and applicable to polar nondegenerate semiconductors with low carrier concentrations. The calculated components of the thermoelectric coefficients are exponentially small in the low-temperature domain and reach a maximum at k BT∼ħω 0. In materials with a large carrier mass and strong electron-phonon coupling the contribution of optical phonons to the Seebeck coefficient can exceed 1 mV/K.
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Ivanov, Y.V., Zaitsev, V.K. & Fedorov, M.I. Contribution of nonequilibrium optical phonons to the Peltier and Seebeck effects in polar semiconductors. Phys. Solid State 40, 1101–1106 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130497
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