Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) solar converters are based on emission of
energetic electrons from a semiconductor cathode that is illuminated and heated with solar …

Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) is a recently proposed novel concept in
solar energy conversion, combining thermal and photovoltaic carrier excitation with …

Numerical and semi-analytical models are presented for photon-enhanced-thermionic-
emission (PETE) devices. The models take diffusion of electrons, inhomogeneous …

In thermionic energy converters, electrons in the gap between electrodes form a negative
space charge and inhibit the emission of additional electrons, causing a significant reduction …

Photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) converts sunlight to electricity with the
combined photonic and thermal excitation of charge carriers in a semiconductor, leading to …

Conversion of solar radiation to electricity with photon-enhanced thermionic emission
(PETE) holds the theoretical promise of high conversion efficiency. Basic questions of …

Photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) is an advanced technology that combines
both the photoelectric and the thermionic effects synergistically into a single device for direct …

Photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) has been recently proposed as a new
concept to achieve full-spectrum solar energy harvesting. Here, we develop a model to …

A heterostructured cathode having a graded bandgap window-layer is proposed in this
study to improve the performance of photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) solar …

Photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) converter is a solid-state heat engine, in
which hot electrons emit from a p-type semiconductor cathode to an anode across a vacuum …