Effect of illlumination on thermionic emission from microfabricated silicon carbide structures

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2658-2661

  Lee, J H ^a   Bargatin, I ^a   Provine, J ^a   Liu, F ^b   Seo, M K ^a   Maboudian, R ^b   Brongersma, M L ^a   Melosh, N A ^a   Shen, Z X ^a   Howe, R T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hermionic Energy Conversion; igh Temperature MEMS; ilicon Carbide; olar Electricity Generation

Indexed keywords

CARBIDE STRUCTURE; HERMIONIC ENERGY CONVERSION; IGH-TEMPERATURE MEMS; ILICON CARBIDE; MICROFABRICATED; N-DOPED; OLAR ELECTRICITY GENERATION; OPTICAL IRRADIATION; SIC EMITTER; SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMIONIC EMITTERS; THERMIONIC ENERGY CONVERTERS;

ACTUATORS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY CONVERSION; MICROFABRICATION; MICROSYSTEMS; PHOSPHORUS; SILICON CARBIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMIONIC EMISSION; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

EID: 80052123658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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