The influence of thermophysical substrate properties of an anisotropic thermoelement on thermopower in the nonstationary thermal regime

Abstract

We have calculated the fields of temperature and electric potential in the model of a thermal sensor based on anisotropic thermoelements in the nonstationary thermal regime. It is shown that the effect of thermal-conduction anisotropy of a material of a thermoelement is insignificant at the initial stage of heating, and the distribution of temperature is close to one-dimensional. With further heating, the thermo-physical properties of the substrate have a significant effect on the field of temperature and potential. The use of a substrate with high thermal diffusivity makes it possible to simplify significantly the processing of measurement results and increase the electrical signal of the sensor.