ERDA/NASA advanced thermionic technology program. Progress report No. 20

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7110901· OSTI ID:7110901

Progress is reported in the areas of surface studies (surface theory and activation chamber experiments), plasma studies (converter theory and enhanced mode conversion experiments), converter development (low temperature conversion experiments and high efficiency conversion experiments), and component hardware (hot shell development). (WHK)

• Research Organization: Thermo Electron Corp., Waltham, MA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-3056
• OSTI ID: 7110901
• Report Number(s): COO-3056-20
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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