noun
Peltier effect
Physics term for the heating or cooling at a junction of two different conductors when an electric current passes through.
ペルティエ効果を利用した冷却装置が開発されている。
Cooling devices using the Peltier effect are being developed.
Seebeck effect: the conversion of temperature differences directly into electricity, the inverse of the Peltier effect.
Named after the French physicist Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, who discovered the effect in 1834.