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Chapter 6 The Improvement of a Specific Material – Bismuth Telluride 6.1 Pure Bismuth Telluride The first report that bismuth telluride, Bi Te , is an effective thermoelectric material 2 3 appeared in 1954 [1]. A thermocouple made from a p-type sample of the compound connected to a negative thermoelement made from bismuth was found to yield a cooling effect of 26 K below ambient temperature by means of the Peltier effect. Bismuth telluride forms single crystals that are markedly anisotropic in their mechanical properties