Browsing by Subject "Diamond"
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(2011-04-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringThermionic energy conversion is a relatively unexplored technology for the efficient conversion of thermal energy directly to electrical energy. In a thermionic converter, thermally excited electrons are emitted from the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)A retarding mesh analyzer was used to measure the electron energy spectrum field emitted from a single tip of a Diamond Field Emitter Array. The emission was dominated by adsorbed gas atoms and molecules on the surface ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringThermionic energy conversion (TEC) is a potentially practical method for the efficient conversion of thermal energy directly into electrical energy. Standard TEC configurations consist of a cathode and an anode separated ...