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A refrigerator is described that is based upon thermionic emission. Room-temperature refrigeration is efficient when the work function of the anode is about 0.3–0.4 eV but those low values are unattainable. The refrigerator only operates at higher temperatures.
G. D. Mahan (1994) studied this question.
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