Abstract
A Thermionic converter with a W(110) emitter was tested with updated instrumentation. The purpose was to verify and establish that the present setup was suitable for testing state of the art converters such as the advanced thermionic initiative converter in the near future. The experimental results were characterized and compared to computer simulations generated with a one dimensional computer code. Thermionic converter applications require an emitter that produces large current density and a collector that yields a high output voltage. Practical converters should be easy to fabricate from readily available materials and provide long service lives. In order to develop such a converter, programs to screen and test the numerous promising electrode combinations are absolutely necessary. The evaluation of rare and expensive thermionic materials became feasible with the introduction of this device because of the small size of its electrode. The present result showed that the maximum power output from the preferentially oriented W(110) diminode was 9.0 watts/cm2.
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