Stable high temperature metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications

  • Corey Shemelya
    Tufts University 1 The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • Dante DeMeo
    Tufts University 1 The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • Nicole Pfiester Latham
    Tufts University 1 The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
  • Xueyuan Wu
    Boston College 2 SMIE Lab, Department of Physics, , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
  • Chris Bingham
    Boston College 2 SMIE Lab, Department of Physics, , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
  • Willie Padilla
    Boston College 2 SMIE Lab, Department of Physics, , Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
  • Thomas E. Vandervelde
    Tufts University 1 The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratories, Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA

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公開日
2014-05-19
DOI
  • 10.1063/1.4878849
公開者
AIP Publishing

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<jats:p>We report a metamaterial design for a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) emitter. TPVs are similar to photovoltaic solar cells, but they convert heat to electricity instead of sunlight. The focus of this paper is on the emitter stage of the TPV system, which converts the heat into a spectral band which is easily absorbable by the TPV photodiode. The proposed structure consists of a platinum metallic element, an alumina dielectric spacer, and platinum grounding plane on a sapphire substrate. This perfect absorber based metamaterial emitter is shown to robustly operate at 600 °C. This temperature is high enough to enable TPV use for many industrial applications.</jats:p>

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