公开(公告)号：EP2335268A2

公开(公告)日：2011-06-22

申请号：EP09764926.3

申请日：2009-10-19

申请人： The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University

发明人： SCHWEDE, Jared ,  MELOSH, Nicholas ,  SHEN, Zhixun

IPC分类号： H01J40/04 ,  H01J45/00 ,  H01J40/06

CPC分类号： H01J40/06 ,  H01J45/00 ,  H01J2201/30434 ,  H02S99/00

摘要： Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) is exploited to provide improved efficiency for radiant energy conversion. A hot (greater than 200 0C) semiconductor cathode is illuminated such that it emits electrons. Because the cathode is hot, significantly more electrons are emitted than would be emitted from a room temperature (or colder) cathode under the same illumination conditions. As a result of this increased electron emission, the energy conversion efficiency can be significantly increased relative to a conventional photovoltaic device. In PETE, the cathode electrons can be (and typically are) thermalized with respect to the cathode. As a result, PETE does not rely on emission of non-thermalized electrons, and is significantly easier to implement than hot-carrier emission approaches.

公开(公告)号：EP2335268B1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-19

申请号：EP09764926.3

申请日：2009-10-19

申请人： The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

发明人： SCHWEDE, Jared ,  MELOSH, Nicholas ,  SHEN, Zhixun

IPC分类号： H01J40/06 ,  H01J45/00 ,  H02N6/00

CPC分类号： H01J40/06 ,  H01J45/00 ,  H01J2201/30434 ,  H02S99/00