Numerical modeling of the field emission nanoscale stand-alone devices for conversion of thermal energy (T ∼ 300K) to electrical energy

Author

Ptitsin, V.E.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Anal. Instrum., St. Petersburg, Russia

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 July 2015

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

36

Abstract

New thermal field electron emission energy conversion method for vacuum electron-optical systems (EOS) with a nanostructured surface electron sources is developed. Physical and numerical modeling of an electron emission and transport processes for different EOS was carried out. Studies have shown that nanoscale thermal field emission EOS can be used to design and create stand-alone devices converting environmental thermal energy (T~300K) into electrical energy.

Keywords

design engineering; electro-optical devices; electron field emission; numerical analysis; thermoelectric conversion; electron emission process; electron transport process; field emission nanoscale stand-alone device numerical model; nanoscale thermal field emission EOS; nanostructured surface electron source; standalone device design; thermal energy to electrical energy conversion; thermal field electron emission energy conversion method; vacuum EOS; vacuum electron-optical systems; Electron emission; Elementary particle vacuum; Energy conversion; Nanoscale devices; Nanotubes; Numerical models; Quantum dots; energy conversion; nanostructures; nanotubes; quantum dots; thermal field electron emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), 2015 28th International

Conference_Location

Guangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-9356-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVNC.2015.7225520

Filename

7225520