Solar energy converter

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1976-12-30

1978-06-13

Andrews, Richard L.

Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric

Thermoelectric

Radiation pyrometer

136 89AA, 313 96, 250208, H01L 3104

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040947033

ABSTRACT:
An improved solar energy converter comprising a plurality of electrically conductive, photoemitting electrodes geometrically arrayed so that light will strike only one surface of each to produce electron emission. The electrodes are in a spaced, generally parallel relationship so that electrons emitted by the illuminated surface of one electrode will travel to, and be collected by, a non-illuminated surface of a next adjacent electrode. A vacuum surrounds the electrodes so that only space conduction occurs. Each electrode has one surface which acts as a photoemitting cathode and one surface which acts as an electron collector, or anode, and thus each pair of adjacent electrode surfaces is analagous to a voltage cell, the plurality of electrodes forming a solar energy battery.

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