Spatial distribution of temperature and temperature instability of a thermoelement

We show that, depending on the spatial distribution of temperature in semiconducting thermoelements, both "negative" (onset of temperature instability at negative temperature differences) and "positive" temperature instabilities may set in. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 542–543, May–June, 1998.