Title :
Cooling effects of field emission from thermoelectric materials
Author :
Chung, M.S. ; Geum, K.P. ; Mayer, Arnaldo ; Weiss, B.L. ; Miskovsky, N.M. ; Cutler, P.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Ulsan, Ulsan, South Korea
Abstract :
This paper presents cooling effect of field emission from PbTe thermoelectric semiconductor cathode. The cooling effect of field emission comes from the energy difference between the outgoing field electron and the incoming replacement electron.
Keywords :
IV-VI semiconductors; cathodes; current density; electron field emission; lead compounds; thermoelectricity; PbTe; cathode; cooling effects; electron field emission; energy exchange; field emission current density; replacement current density; thermoelectric semiconductor; Erbium;
Conference_Titel :
Vacuum Electron Sources Conference and Nanocarbon (IVESC), 2010 8th International
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6645-0
DOI :
10.1109/IVESC.2010.5644206
