@inproceedings{b20582fcb74844f891a609fd13b0dcf2,
title = "Thermionic power conversion for scramjets and reentry vehicles using nanosecond voltage pulses",
abstract = "Modeling and experimental studies were conducted into the use of nanosecond scale voltage pulses in an inert gas in order to provide positive ions in the interelectrode space of a thermionic power converter. These studies show that even with repetition rates lower than 50kHz, the pulses have the ability to sustain a plasma that will allow the passage and collection of a significant fraction of thermionically emitted current without the application of an external bias. Thus the configuration is capable of operating as a thermionic conversion device. This method of dealing with the space charge retarding force has the potential to be applied to large scale, two dimensional surfaces in a way that has not been successfully implemented with conventional methodologies.",
author = "Bruce Alderman and Philip Howard and Mikhail Shneider and Boris Pivtorak and Sohail Zaidi and Miles, {Richard B.}",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.2514/6.2008-4098",
language = "American English",
isbn = "9781563479427",
series = "39th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference",
publisher = "American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc.",
booktitle = "39th AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference",
}