Thermionic refrigeration
- 1 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (7), 4362-4366
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357324
Abstract
A refrigerator is described that is based upon thermionic emission. Room‐temperature refrigeration is efficient when the work function of the anode is about 0.3–0.4 eV but those low values are unattainable. The refrigerator only operates at higher temperatures.Keywords
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