Thermoelectric Properties of the Plasma Diode
Description:
It is well known that thermionic emission into vacuum is accompanied by a Peltier cooling of the vacuum metal interface. The interface may be thought of as a junction between two conductors: the metal, and an electron gas whose distribution is determined primarily by space charge. The addition of a small amount of easily ionized gas to the vacuum region does not affect the Peltier cooling of the interface, but is does squeeze the space charge region to about one micron and replaces most of the …
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Date:
July 25, 1958
Creator:
Lewis, H. W. & Reitz, John R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department