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Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators

HoSung Lee, PhD

Western Michigan University

2/13/2017

Plutonium-238

Holgate et al. (2016)

Hammel et al. (2016)

Hammel et al. (2016)

Woerner (2016)

Woerner (2016)

Holgate et al. (2014)

Zakrajsek et al. (2016)

Khajepour and Rahmani (2017)

Khajepour and Rahmani (2017)

Rowe (1995)-CRC handbook

Radioactive isotope of plutonium 238 with a half-life of about 87 years and is a very powerful alpha ray emitter

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Hammel, T., R. Bennett and B. Sievers (2016). Evolutionary upgrade for the multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG). IEEE Aerospace Conference.

Woerner, D. (2016). "A Progress Report on the eMMRTG." Journal of Electronic Materials.

Holgate, T. C., R. Bennett, T. Hammel, T. Caillat, S. Keyser and B. Sievers (2014). "Increasing the Efficiency of the Multi-mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator." Journal of Electronic Materials 44(6): 1814-1821.

Khajepour, A. and F. Rahmani (2017). "An approach to design a 90Sr radioisotope thermoelectric generator using analytical and Monte Carlo methods with ANSYS, COMSOL, and MCNP." Appl Radiat Isot 119: 51-59.

Rowe, D. M. (1995). CRC handbook of thermoelectrics. Boca Raton London New York, CRC Press.