Abstract
Thermoelectronics includes invariant ELEMENTS of Thermoelectricity, Thermoemission and p-n junction theory. And the Local NANO-THERMO-EMFs discovered and used to build the Unified Theory of NANO-scale, which are orders of magnitude greater than the Seebeck EMF, can have practical application for increasing the Efficiency of Energy Conversion of traditional devices. They are also a diagnostic tool for any microelements. But most importantly, they prompted the UNDERSTANDING that between the micro and Marco-worlds, Physics missed a scale where their linear approximations do not work, the Thermoelectronic Laws of the NANO-scale. Thus, Thermoelectricity, which was initially included in the FUNDAMENTALS of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, returned again to the Fundamental Science of the NANO-scale missed by Physics and actually expanded Electronics to Thermoelectronics, which revealed the previously unaccounted aspect of increasing the Efficiency of Energy Conversion - taking into account the spatial scale. Moreover, the Refinement and Expansion of the Theory of Thermoelectricity became the background (foundation) of all Evidence-Based Physics
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