"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The Seebeck and Peltier effects -- 1.1. Definition of the thermoelectric coefficients -- 1.2. The Kelvin relations -- 1.3. Electrical resistance and thermal conductance2. The thermoelectric figure of merit -- 2.1. Coefficient …