Photon-enhanced thermionic emission
Photoexcitation raises electrons into the conduction band of a hot semiconductor cathode, which then emit thermionically. Combines photovoltaic and thermal conversion in one cathode.
Atlas record: 3 claims reference this phenomenon — 2 demonstrated and 1 established.
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Relations
- concentrated sunlight on a semiconductor cathode held at several hundred °C in vacuum
Matrix context
D = disequilibrium row · C = coupling family column. A cell reads the state of the atlas for that pair.
Enumerated routes through this · 1
- Photon-enhanced thermionic converter1/3 est · demonstrated
Cited sources · 2
- [1]J. W. Schwede, et al.. Photon-enhanced thermionic emission for solar concentrator systems (2010)
- [2]G. N. Hatsopoulos, E. P. Gyftopoulos. Thermionic Energy Conversion, Vol. 1: Processes and Devices (1973)
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Physical Transformation Atlas (2026). entity phenomenon:photon-enhanced-thermionic-emission: Photon-enhanced thermionic emission. Dataset revision rbfbfcbb70e57 (hash of the canonical data). https://physical-transformation-atlas.wldud5192.workers.dev/phenomenon/photon-enhanced-thermionic-emission
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