When scientists Daniel Riley and Jared Schwede left Stanford University last year to join Cyclotron Road, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) program for entrepreneurial researchers ...

The consideration of the potential applicability of thermionic conversion to non-space, or terrestrial, applications can presently be divided into two broad categories, namely, commercial power ...

A Spanish-Italian research group has developed a solid-state thermal-to-electric energy converter based on hybrid thermionic-photovoltaics (TIPV) for different applications. It consists of a ...

New thermionic generator overcomes the 'space-charge problem'. (Courtesy: J Mannhart/MPG) A new type of thermionic generator that turns heat or light into electrical energy has been developed by ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Heat energy can be converted into electricity with very high efficiency through a temperature-induced electron flow process known as thermionic emission. The basic operating ...

(Nanowerk News) When scientists Daniel Riley and Jared Schwede left Stanford University last year to join Cyclotron Road, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) program for ...

Hot stuff: the prototype thermionic energy convertor in action. (Courtesy: Elsevier) Thermionic energy conversion – a technology first developed in the 1950s to power spacecraft – could soon be ...

GIBRALTAR, Iceland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2003--A hybrid electric automobile using thermionic devices to drive electric motors could provide an efficient and low cost alternative to current designs ...

When a metal is heated to a sufficiently high temperature, electrons can be ejected out from the surface in a process known as the thermionic emission, a process that is similar to the evaporation of ...

Although thermionic emission in traditional materials, such as copper and silicon, has been well-explained by a theoretical model put forward by British physicist O. W. Richardson in 1901, exactly how ...