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Chapter 7 Methods for the Production of Materials 7.1 General Principles The development of thermoelectric refrigerators and generators after the 1950s stemmed from the work on semiconductors for use in transistors and other elec- tronic devices. These applications of semiconductors were made possible through the availability of highly pure and perfect single crystals that could be doped with minute quantities of donor and acceptor impurities. The effects that were exploited were for the most part of an interfacial nature generally associated with i