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Transducer · transducer:thermionic-converter

Thermionic converter

Hot cathode, cooler anode, vacuum or caesium-vapour gap. Flown on Soviet TOPAZ reactors; efficiency 5–15%.

K7 · engineering prototype

Atlas record: 1 claim references this transducer — 1 demonstrated.

Explorerelations · sources · cite

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Thermionic emission—implemented by→Thermionic converterdemonstrated

Cited sources · 1

  1. [1]
    G. N. Hatsopoulos, E. P. Gyftopoulos. Thermionic Energy Conversion, Vol. 1: Processes and Devices (1973)
    MIT Press · book, no DOI · record

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