Enhancing adhesion strength of nickel contacts in thermoelectric module branches
Abstract
A method is proposed to improve the adhesion strength of nickel contacts in thermoelectric module branches. The approach consists of treating nickel layers during thermal annealing with a constant magnetic field and pulsed electric fields. As a result, the adhesion strength of nickel layers increases by 1.5–2 times, and its variation after 1000 hours of operation in cyclic mode at temperatures of 213–333 K does not exceed 10%. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the method for enhancing the reliability of thermoelectric modules.
Copyright (c) 2006 Asheulov A. A., Dobrovolskiy Yu. G., Romanyuk I. S.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.