Micro combustion-thermionic power generation: Feasibility, design and initial results

TRANSDUCERS 2003 - 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 40-44

  Zhang, Chunbo ^a   Najafi, K ^a   Bernal, L P ^b   Washabaugh, P D ^b  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Clouds; Combustion; Electron emission; Engines; Fuels; Power generation; Temperature; Thermionic emission; Thermoelectricity

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CHEMICALS; CLOUDS; COMBUSTION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ENGINES; FUELING; MICROSYSTEMS; POWER GENERATION; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; TEMPERATURE; THERMIONIC EMISSION; THERMOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

EMISSION CURRENT; MICRO COMBUSTION; MICRO POWER GENERATOR; MICRO-MACHINED; MICROMACHINED COMBUSTORS; SYSTEM LEVELS; THERMAL ISOLATION;

THERMIONIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 3042734858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1215248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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