Patent ID: 7994415

Claim:
A thermoelectric device, comprising: a first electrode and a second electrode that are disposed to be opposed to each other, and a laminate that is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, is connected electrically to both the first electrode and the second electrode, and is layered in a direction orthogonal to an electromotive-force extracting direction, which is the direction in which the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, wherein the laminate comprises a thermoelectric material layer, a first holding layer and a second holding layer that are arranged so that the thermoelectric material layer is between the first holding layer and the second holding layer, each of the first holding layer and the second holding layer has layered structures in which metals and insulators are layered alternately, respectively, and having layer surfaces that are slanted with respect to the electromotive-force extraction direction, and the insulators of the first holding layer and the insulators of the second holding layer are disposed alternately in the electromotive-force extracting direction.