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Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems

September 2008 - August 2011

Investigators

Nick Melosh, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Zhi-Xun Shen, Department of Physics, Stanford University

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  • Schwede, J. W., I. Bargatin, D. C. Riley, R. T. Howe, Z-X. Shen, and N. A. Melosh. “Photon enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) for solar concentrator systems.” (In preparation, 2009).
Updated June 2011
 
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