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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2010
Applicants:
Peter L. Hagelstein, Carlisle, MA (US);
Dennis M. Wu, Kowloon, HK;
Inventors:
Peter L. Hagelstein, Carlisle, MA (US);
Dennis M. Wu, Kowloon, HK;
Assignee:
MTPV Power Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/32 (2006.01); H01L 35/00 (2006.01); H01J 45/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 35/00 (2013.01); H01J 45/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus for thermal-to-electric conversion involving relatively hot and cold juxtaposed surfaces separated by a small vacuum gap wherein the cold surface provides an array of single charge carrier converter elements along the surface and the hot surface transfers excitation energy to the opposing cold surface across the gap through Coulomb electrostatic coupling interaction.