Tailoring photonic metamaterial resonances for thermal radiation

Bermel, Peter; Ghebrebrhan, Michael; Harradon, Michael; Yeng, Yi Xiang; Celanovic, Ivan; Joannopoulos, John D.; Soljacic, Marin

doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-549

Tailoring photonic metamaterial resonances for thermal radiation

Journal Article · Thu Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Nanoscale Research Letters (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-6-549· OSTI ID:1386878

Bermel, Peter ^[1]; Ghebrebrhan, Michael ^[1]; Harradon, Michael ^[1]; Yeng, Yi Xiang ^[1]; Celanovic, Ivan ^[1]; Joannopoulos, John D. ^[1]; Soljacic, Marin ^[1]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Selective solar absorbers generally have limited effectiveness in unconcentrated sunlight, because of reradiation losses over a broad range of wavelengths and angles. However, metamaterials offer the potential to limit radiation exchange to a proscribed range of angles and wavelengths, which has the potential to dramatically boost performance. After globally optimizing one particular class of such designs, we find thermal transfer efficiencies of 78% at temperatures over 1,000°C, with overall system energy conversion efficiencies of 37%, exceeding the Shockley-Quiesser efficiency limit of 31% for photovoltaic conversion under unconcentrated sunlight. This represents a 250% increase in efficiency and 94% decrease in selective emitter area compared to a standard, angular-insensitive selective absorber.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001299

OSTI ID:: 1386878

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1066957

Journal Information:: Nanoscale Research Letters (Online), Journal Name: Nanoscale Research Letters (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 6; ISSN 1556-276X

Publisher:: SpringerCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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