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The thermocouple has the advantages of simple fabrication and convenient integration. Bismuth\/gallium-based mixed alloys are used as thermocouple materials. To precisely inject the metal alloys to the location of the sensing area, a micro-polydimethylsiloxane post is designed within the sensing area to prevent outflow of the metal alloy to another thermocouple pole during the metal-alloy injection. Experimental results showed that the Seebeck coefficient of this thermocouple reached \u221210.54 \u03bcV\/K, which was much higher than the previously reported 0.1 \u03bcV\/K. The thermocouple was also be bent at 90\u00b0 more than 200 times without any damage when the mass ratio of the bismuth-based alloy was &lt;60% in the metal-alloy mixture. This technology mitigated the difficulty of depositing traditional thin\u2013film thermocouples on soft substrates. 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