Thermionic refrigeration
G. D. MahanDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200
1994en
ABI
Abstract
A refrigerator is described that is based upon thermionic emission. Room-temperature refrigeration is efficient when the work function of the anode is about 0.3–0.4 eV but those low values are unattainable. The refrigerator only operates at higher temperatures.
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