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A thermionic converter consists of a hot electrode which thermionically emits electrons over a potential energy barrier to a cooler electrode, producing a useful electric power output. Caesium vapor is used to optimize the electrode work functions and provide an ion supply (by surface ionization or electron impact ionization in a plasma) to neutralize the electron space charge.
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A thermionicconverter consists of a hot electrode which thermionically emits electrons over a potential energy barrier to a cooler electrode, producing...
electricity generation (such as thermionic converters and electrodynamic tethers) or cooling. Thermionic vacuum tubes emit electrons from a hot cathode...
betavoltaic devices can reach 6–8% efficiency. A thermionicconverter consists of a hot electrode, which thermionically emits electrons over a space-charge barrier...
low-temperature converter’s efficiency. Kiziroglou, M. E.; Li, X.; Zhukov, A. A.; De Groot, P. A. J.; De Groot, C. H. (2008). "Thermionic field emission...
hydrogen and highly enriched fuel and produces electricity using a thermionicconverter. In initial discussions, it was unclear that TOPAZ and the somewhat...
difference has been applied. The type known as a thermionic tube or thermionic valve utilizes thermionic emission of electrons from a hot cathode for fundamental...
fission of highly enriched 235 U and convert it to electricity using a thermionicconverter) Systems never launched are not included here, see Nuclear power...
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the Earth every 89.5 minutes. Powered by a liquid sodium–potassium thermionicconverter driven by a BES-5 nuclear reactor containing around 50 kg of highly-enriched...
named Kosmos 954 failed. It was powered by a liquid sodium–potassium thermionicconverter driven by a nuclear reactor containing around 50 kilograms (110 lb)...
materials such as gallium arsenide and germanium are also used. The obsolete thermionic diode is a vacuum tube with two electrodes, a heated cathode and a plate...
electricity. These designs include thermionicconverter, thermophotovoltaic cells, alkali-metal thermal to electric converter, and the most common design, the...
Before the development of silicon semiconductor rectifiers, vacuum tube thermionic diodes and copper oxide- or selenium-based metal rectifier stacks were...
thermal energy generation. Batteryless radio Pyroelectric effect Thermionicconverter Goldsmid, H. Julian (2016). Introduction to Thermoelectricity. Springer...
– the first demonstration of a practical arc-mode caesium vapor thermionicconverter by V. Wilson. Electrons from a hot cathode act as a working fluid...
the surface. Using caesium atoms, graphite-covered surfaces and thermionicconverters as containment, the work function of the surface has been measured...
The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a thermionic valve or vacuum tube invented in 1904 by English physicist John Ambrose...
thermoelectric converters between 1967 and 1988.[citation needed] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet Union developed TOPAZ reactors, which utilize thermionic converters...
DC (rectifier) DC to AC (inverter) DC to DC (DC-to-DC converter) AC to AC (AC-to-AC converter) Power electronics started with the development of the...
assigned) V-- Flash tubes W-- Travelling wave tube X-- X-ray tube Y-- Thermionicconverter The last 2 digits were serially assigned, beginning with 21 to avoid...
and highly enriched uranium fuel. It produced electricity using a thermionicconverter. It had a Plazma-2 SPT electric engine. Its mission was to search...
graduate student, later described in his doctoral dissertation (1937) as a thermionic trigger. It was a direct result of Schmitt's study of the neural impulse...
and highly enriched fuel. The reactor produced electricity using a thermionicconverter. The satellite used a Plazma-2 SPT Hall-effect thruster for propulsion...
Martsinovskiy, B. Ya. Moyzhes, G. E. Pikus, E. B. Sonin, and V. G. Yur’yev, Thermionicconverters and low-temperature plasma, US Department of Energy (1978)....
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