Analysis of performance characteristics of the energy selective electron heat engine and refrigerator

Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Xiao Min ^a   He, Ji Zhou ^a   Wang, Jian Hui ^b  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coefficient of performance; Efficiency; Electron heat engines or refrigerators; Fermi Dirac distribution; The density of electron flow

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON GUNS; ELECTRONS; ENGINES; FERMIONS; REFRIGERATORS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON FLOWS; ELECTRON HEAT ENGINES OR REFRIGERATORS; ELECTRON RESERVOIRS; FERMI-DIRAC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT FLOWS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCES; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; SPHERICAL POLAR COORDINATES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THE DENSITY OF ELECTRON FLOW;

HEAT ENGINES;

EID: 57749098790     PISSN: 03722112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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