Low work function diamond surfaces

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• Kane O’Donnell, Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol
• Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:00-17:00
• Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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In this talk I will describe the efforts underway at Bristol to produce a solar thermionic converter based on lithiated diamond nanopowders. In addition to outstanding mechanical properties, diamond is a very interesting electronic material and we have demonstrated very low threshold field emission and low-temperature thermionic emission for reasons not entirely clear at this point. I will present ab-initio calculations suggesting a lithium surface adsorbate role and describe our experimental efforts to investigate nanodiamond emitters.

This talk is part of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids Group series.

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