Professor Ricky Ang featured in Phys.org

Phys.org published an article about how researchers from the SUTD have discovered a general theory that describes the thermionic emission from graphene. The article quoted EPD student Chen Yueyi and head of Science, Mathematics and Technology cluster, Prof Ricky Ang.

To read more, please go to https://phys.org/news/2019-10-physicists-mystery-thermionic-emissions-graphene.html

This research highlight can also be found at SUTD Physicists Unlock the Mystery of Thermionic Emission in Graphene

(a) The energy band structure illustrating the thermionic emission process of electrons in graphene at different energy states; (b) Low-energy band structure of graphene under the Dirac cone approximation; (c) More general energy band structure of graphene covering both low and high energy regime; (d) Large discrepancy between the electronic density of states predicted by the band structure theory in (b) and in (c).