Electron Thermionic Emission from Graphene and a Thermionic Energy Converter
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Thermionic and Photo-Excited Electron Emission for Energy-Conversion Processes
*Correspondence: Timothy S. Fisher , Birck Nanotechnology Center, 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA e-mail: [email protected] This article describes advances in thermionic and photo-emission materials and applications dating back to the work on thermionic emission by Guthrie (1873) and the photoelectric effect by Hertz (1893). Thermionic emission has been employed for elec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Applied
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2331-7019
DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.3.014002