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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2014
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Riley, Stanford, CA (US);
Kunal Sahasrabuddhe, Stanford, CA (US);
Igor Bargatin, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Jared W. Schwede, Stanford, CA (US);
Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford, CA (US);
Nicholas A. Melosh, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
The embodiments provide a thermionic emission device and a method for tuning a work function in a thermionic emission device is provided. The method includes illuminating an N type semiconductor material of a first member of a thermionic emission device, wherein a work function of the N type semiconductor material is lowered by the illuminating. The method includes collecting, on one of the first member or a second member of the thermionic emission device, electrons emitted from one of the first member or the second member.