Photonic crystal enhanced silicon cell based thermophotovoltaic systems
Abstract
Here, we report the design, optimization, and experimental results of large area commercial silicon solar cell based thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems. Using global non-linear optimization tools, we demonstrate theoretically a maximum radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency of 6.4% and a corresponding output electrical power density of 0.39 W cm⁻² at temperature T = 1660 K when implementing both the optimized two-dimensional (2D) tantalum photonic crystal (PhC) selective emitter, and the optimized 1D tantalum pentoxide – silicon dioxide PhC cold-side selective filter. In addition, we have developed an experimental large area TPV test setup that enables accurate measurement of radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency for any emitter-filter-TPV cell combination of interest. In fact, the experimental results match extremely well with predictions of our numerical models. Our experimental setup achieved a maximum output electrical power density of 0.10W cm⁻² and radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency of 1.18% at T = 1380 K using commercial wafer size back-contacted silicon solar cells.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz (Austria)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1193631
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; nanophotonics and photonic crystals; energy transfer; thermal emission; thermophotovoltaics; selective emitters/absorbers
Citation Formats
Yeng, Yi Xiang, Chan, Walker R., Rinnerbauer, Veronika, Stelmakh, Veronika, Senkevich, Jay J., Joannopoulos, John D., Soljacic, Marin, and Celanovic, Ivan. Photonic crystal enhanced silicon cell based thermophotovoltaic systems. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.23.00A157.
Yeng, Yi Xiang, Chan, Walker R., Rinnerbauer, Veronika, Stelmakh, Veronika, Senkevich, Jay J., Joannopoulos, John D., Soljacic, Marin, & Celanovic, Ivan. Photonic crystal enhanced silicon cell based thermophotovoltaic systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.00A157
Yeng, Yi Xiang, Chan, Walker R., Rinnerbauer, Veronika, Stelmakh, Veronika, Senkevich, Jay J., Joannopoulos, John D., Soljacic, Marin, and Celanovic, Ivan. Fri .
"Photonic crystal enhanced silicon cell based thermophotovoltaic systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.00A157. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1193631.
@article{osti_1193631,
title = {Photonic crystal enhanced silicon cell based thermophotovoltaic systems},
author = {Yeng, Yi Xiang and Chan, Walker R. and Rinnerbauer, Veronika and Stelmakh, Veronika and Senkevich, Jay J. and Joannopoulos, John D. and Soljacic, Marin and Celanovic, Ivan},
abstractNote = {Here, we report the design, optimization, and experimental results of large area commercial silicon solar cell based thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems. Using global non-linear optimization tools, we demonstrate theoretically a maximum radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency of 6.4% and a corresponding output electrical power density of 0.39 W cm⁻² at temperature T = 1660 K when implementing both the optimized two-dimensional (2D) tantalum photonic crystal (PhC) selective emitter, and the optimized 1D tantalum pentoxide – silicon dioxide PhC cold-side selective filter. In addition, we have developed an experimental large area TPV test setup that enables accurate measurement of radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency for any emitter-filter-TPV cell combination of interest. In fact, the experimental results match extremely well with predictions of our numerical models. Our experimental setup achieved a maximum output electrical power density of 0.10W cm⁻² and radiative heat-to-electricity efficiency of 1.18% at T = 1380 K using commercial wafer size back-contacted silicon solar cells.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.23.00A157},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 3,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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