While many semiconductor materials can produce an electric potential when heated, through something called the Seebeck effect, that effect is very weak in carbon.

然而很多半导体材料(semiconductor material)在加热时能够通过塞贝克效应(Seebeck effect)这种形式产生电势能(electric potential)，但是在碳中发生的塞贝克效应很微弱。