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Claim · claim:pete-drives

Incident radiation flux —drives→ Photon-enhanced thermionic emission

The atlas records this claim as demonstrated: an incident radiation flux drives the photon-enhanced thermionic emission under the conditions below.

demonstratedK4 · experimentally observedledger radiative → electrical · loss to thermalno record-level review date

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1cited sources1enumerated routes using it1routes with composition evidence1recorded pathways

Conditions

  • concentrated sunlight on a semiconductor cathode held at several hundred °C in vacuum
regime: vacuum required · above ~700 K · semiconductor required · illumination required

Evidence · 1

  1. [1]
    J. W. Schwede, et al.. Photon-enhanced thermionic emission for solar concentrator systems (2010)
    Nature Materials 9, 762–767 · doi:10.1038/nmat2814 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

Matrix cells this relation feeds

D = disequilibrium row · C = coupling family column. A cell reads the state of the atlas for that pair.

D.11 × C.02 · Incident radiation flux × Thermionic · Established
family: Thermionic

Uses of this claim

recorded pathways · 1

Cite this claim

Physical Transformation Atlas (2026). claim claim:pete-drives: Incident radiation flux —drives→ Photon-enhanced thermionic emission. Dataset revision rbfbfcbb70e57 (hash of the canonical data). https://physical-transformation-atlas.wldud5192.workers.dev/claim/pete-drives

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