ADVANCED THERMIONIC CONVERTER DEVELOPMENTS WITH MICROWAVE EXTERNAL PUMPING.

H. S. Chiu; D. T. Shaw; C. N. Manikopoulos; C. H. Lee

ADVANCED THERMIONIC CONVERTER DEVELOPMENTS WITH MICROWAVE EXTERNAL PUMPING.

H. S. Chiu
, D. T. Shaw
, C. N. Manikopoulos
, C. H. Lee

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

This work reports the ion generation in a cesium thermionic converter as part of the advanced-model thermionic converter development research under way at SUNY/Buffalo. A microwave with frequency in the range between 1-2 GHz is used to externally pump a thermionic converter as part of an effort in the verification of Lam's theory. It is found that the motive peak as predicted in the theory disappears whenever microwave power is used to excite the cesium plasma of the converter. The electron temperature is effectively heated by the microwave and the experimental data agrees with theory in the low-power output region.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1575-1581
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
State	Published - 1977
Event	Proc Intersoc Energy Convers Eng Conf 12th - Washington, DC, USA Duration: Aug 28 1977 → Sep 2 1977

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