A thermionic converter 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 thermionic converter consists of a hot electrode, which thermionically emits electrons over a space-charge barrier...

hydrogen and highly enriched fuel and produces electricity using a thermionic converter. In initial discussions, it was unclear that TOPAZ and the somewhat...

A DC-to-DC converter is an electronic circuit or electromechanical device that converts a source of direct current (DC) from one voltage level to another...

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...

the Earth every 89.5 minutes. Powered by a liquid sodium–potassium thermionic converter driven by a BES-5 nuclear reactor containing around 50 kg of highly-enriched...

fission of highly enriched 235 U and convert it to electricity using a thermionic converter) Systems never launched are not included here, see Nuclear power...

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...

named Kosmos 954 failed. It was powered by a liquid sodium–potassium thermionic converter driven by a nuclear reactor containing around 50 kilograms (110 lb)...

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Telkes Stirling engine Thermal power station Thermoelectric battery Thermionic converter Thermoelectric cooling or Peltier cooler Thermoelectric effect Thermoelectric...

electricity. These designs include thermionic converter, thermophotovoltaic cells, alkali-metal thermal to electric converter, and the most common design, the...

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...

thermal energy generation. Batteryless radio Pyroelectric effect Thermionic converter Goldsmid, H. Julian (2016). Introduction to Thermoelectricity. Springer...

Before the development of silicon semiconductor rectifiers, vacuum tube thermionic diodes and copper oxide- or selenium-based metal rectifier stacks were...

– the first demonstration of a practical arc-mode caesium vapor thermionic converter by V. Wilson. Electrons from a hot cathode act as a working fluid...

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hours) self-reciprocating actuators. Atomic battery Betavoltaics Thermionic converter Optoelectric nuclear battery Bill Steele (October 16, 2002). "Tiny...

The Fleming valve, also called the Fleming oscillation valve, was a thermionic valve or vacuum tube invented in 1904 by English physicist John Ambrose...

the surface. Using caesium atoms, graphite-covered surfaces and thermionic converters as containment, the work function of the surface has been measured...

thermoelectric converters between 1967 and 1988.[citation needed] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet Union developed TOPAZ reactors, which utilize thermionic converters...

and highly enriched uranium fuel. It produced electricity using a thermionic converter. It had a Plazma-2 SPT electric engine. Its mission was to search...

and highly enriched fuel. The reactor produced electricity using a thermionic converter. The satellite used a Plazma-2 SPT Hall-effect thruster for propulsion...

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...

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-- Thermionic converter The last 2 digits were serially assigned, beginning with 21 to avoid...

gas filled thermionic converter developed by him. In the early sixties, very successful research work on various types of thermionic converters was performed...

Martsinovskiy, B. Ya. Moyzhes, G. E. Pikus, E. B. Sonin, and V. G. Yur’yev, Thermionic converters and low-temperature plasma, US Department of Energy (1978)....

Similar conventions were applied to circuits involving vacuum tubes, or thermionic valves, as they were known outside of the U.S. Therefore, we see VP, VK...