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begins to contribute significant emission current. In this regime, the combined effects of field-enhanced thermionic and field emission can be modeled by the Murphy-Good equation for thermo-field (T-F) emission. At even higher fields, FN tunneling becomes the dominant electron emission mechanism, and
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in a solid that are free to move from atom to atom. This is sometimes collectively referred to as a "sea of electrons". Their velocities follow a statistical distribution, rather than being uniform, and occasionally an electron will have enough velocity to exit the metal without being pulled back in.
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Provisional specification for a thermionic valve was lodged on November 16, 1904. In this document, Fleming coined the British term "valve" for what in North America is called a "vacuum tube": "The means I employ for this purpose consists in the insertion in the circuit of the alternating current of
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are both given the same name; and (3) a variety of names exist for these equations, including "Richardson equation", "Dushman's equation", "Richardson–Dushman equation" and "Richardson–Laue–Dushman equation". In the literature, the elementary equation is sometimes given in circumstances where the
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and flowed along the arrows from the filament through the partial vacuum to the electrode) or negatively (which resulted in no measurable current). We now know that in addition to carbon molecules, the filament was emitting electrons, which have negative charge are thus are attracted to a
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in Britain. While doing work on charged objects, Guthrie discovered that a red-hot iron sphere with a negative charge would lose its charge (by somehow discharging it into air). He also found that this did not happen if the sphere had a positive charge. Other early contributors included
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cast a light shadow on the glass, as if negatively-charged carbon emanated from the negative end and was attracted towards and sometimes absorbed by the positive end of the filament loop. This projected carbon was deemed "electrical carrying" and initially ascribed to an effect in
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move from a negative to a positive electrode. To try to redirect the charged carbon particles to a separate electrode instead of the glass, Edison did a series of experiments (a first inconclusive one is in his notebook on 13 February 1880) such as the following successful one:
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that harnesses both the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity and increases the efficiency of solar power production by more than twice the current levels. The device developed for the process reaches peak efficiency above 200 °C, while most silicon
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generalized equation would be more appropriate, and this in itself can cause confusion. To avoid misunderstandings, the meaning of any "A-like" symbol should always be explicitly defined in terms of the more fundamental quantities involved.
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In the period 1911 to 1930, as physical understanding of the behaviour of electrons in metals increased, various theoretical expressions (based on different physical assumptions) were put forward for
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published the results of his experiments: the current from a heated wire seemed to depend exponentially on the temperature of the wire with a mathematical form similar to the modified
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device using the effect on 15 November 1883, notably the first US patent for an electronic device. He found that sufficient current would pass through the device to operate a
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can increase the device's efficiency to 55–60 percent, nearly triple that of existing systems, and 12–17 percent more than existing 43 percent multi-junction solar cells.
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After emission, an opposite charge of equal magnitude to the emitted charge is initially left behind in the emitting region. But if the emitter is connected to a
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received several bulbs from Edison to investigate. Preece's 1885 paper on them referred to the one-way current through the partial vacuum as the
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Y. S. Ang, Xueyi Chen, Chuan Tan and L. K. Ang (July 2019). "Generalized high-energy thermionic electron injection at graphene interface".
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of the outgoing electrons would be reflected as they reached the emitter surface, so the emission current density would be reduced, and
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of the same material. At least qualitatively, these experimental differences can be explained as due to differences in the value of
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an appliance which permits only the passage of electric current in one direction and constitutes therefore an electrical valve."
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Ang, Yee Sin; Ang, L. K. (2016). "Current-Temperature Scaling for a Schottky Interface with Nonparabolic Energy Dispersion".
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Svensson, R.; Holmlid, L. (1992). "Very low work function surfaces from condensed excited states: Rydber matter of cesium".
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which yield a decrease of collector emitting work function from 1.5 eV to 1.0–0.7 eV. Due to long-lived nature of
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Electron emission that takes place in the field-and-temperature-regime where this modified equation applies is often called
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Thermionic emission can also be enhanced by interaction with other forms of excitation such as light. For example, excited
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S. J. Liang and L. K. Ang (January 2015). "Electron Thermionic Emission from Graphene and a Thermionic Energy Converter".
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Y. S. Ang, H. Y. Yang and L. K. Ang (August 2018). "Universal scaling in nanoscale lateral Schottky heterostructures".
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is now also used to refer to any thermally-excited charge emission process, even when the charge is emitted from one
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This effect had many applications. Edison found that the current emitted by the hot filament increased rapidly with
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at the emitter surface. Without the field, the surface barrier seen by an escaping Fermi-level electron has height
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Considerable confusion exists in the literature of this area because: (1) many sources do not distinguish between
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in 1928 "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him".
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showing white thermionic emission mix coating on the central portion of the coil. Typically made of a mixture of
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such as a metal plate in this example (variants used platinum foil or extra wire instead) isolated from the
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this low work function remains low which essentially increases the low-temperature converter's efficiency.
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In fact, by about 1930 there was agreement that, due to the wave-like nature of electrons, some proportion
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Schwede, J. W.; et al. (2010). "Photon-enhanced thermionic emission for solar concentrator systems".
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Mal'Shukov, A. G.; Chao, K. A. (2001). "Opto-Thermionic Refrigeration in Semiconductor Heterostructures".
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of the emitting material must also be taken into account. This would introduce a second correction factor
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in 1897, the word "electron" was not used when discussing experiments that took place before this date.
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Murphy, E. L.; Good, G. H. (1956). "Thermionic Emission, Field Emission, and the Transition Region".
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Crowell, C. R. (1965). "The Richardson constant for thermionic emission in Schottky barrier diodes".
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specifically refers to emission of electrons and occurs when thermal energy overcomes the material's
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although that term is occasionally used to refer to thermionic emission itself. British physicist
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Thermionic Electron Emission Properties of Nitrogen-Incorporated Polycrystalline Diamond Films
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equal to the local work-function. The electric field lowers the surface barrier by an amount Δ
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deposited from the filament and was darkest near the positive end of the filament loop, which
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The thermionic emission law has been recently revised for 2D materials in various models.
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forms, Richardson preferred the latter, stating that it was theoretically better founded.
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Because of the exponential function, the current increases rapidly with temperature when
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Kiziroglou, M. E.; Li, X.; Zhukov, A. A.; De Groot, P. A. J.; De Groot, C. H. (2008).
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The minimum amount of energy needed for an electron to leave a surface is called the
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Photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) is a process developed by scientists at
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How vacuum tubes really work with a section on thermionic emission, with equations
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began work on the topic that he later called "thermionic emission". He received a
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collectors, which reach temperatures up to 800 °C. Although the team used a
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configured his bulb (large circle) such that its electrode was in series with an
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The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
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noticed this current, so subsequent scientists referred to the current as the
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is a material-specific correction factor that is typically of order 0.5, and
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in 1880 while his team was trying to discover the reason for breakage of
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semiconductor in its proof-of-concept device, it claims that the use of
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Derivations of thermionic emission equations from an undergraduate lab
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and undesired blackening of the interior surface of the bulbs in his
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was not identified as a separate physical particle until the work of
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However, a modern theoretical treatment by Modinos assumes that the
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positively-charged electrode but not a negatively-charged electrode.
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become inert after reaching 100 °C. Such devices work best in
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to escape the material's surface. The particles, sometimes called
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Thermionic emission is crucial to the operation of a variety of
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that scientists understood that electrons were emitted and why.
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the electrode either positively (in which case electrons were
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away through normal use, eventually resulting in lamp failure.
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Green, M. A.; Emery, K.; Hishikawa, Y.; Warta, W. (2011).
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The emission of electricity from hot bodies, 2nd edition
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Thermally induced flow of charge carriers from a surface
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Preece coins the term the "Edison effect" on page 229.
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Thermionic Phenomena and the Laws which Govern Them
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Index

Edison effect
fermion

filament
low pressure mercury
gas-discharge lamp
barium
strontium
calcium
oxides
sputtered
charged particles
electrode
thermal energy
kinetic energy
ions
electrons
work function
battery
electric current
Thomas Edison
his light bulb
1897 discovery of the electron
electronic
electricity generation
thermionic converters
electrodynamic tethers
vacuum tubes
hot cathode
vacuum

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