Electroluminescent refrigeration by ultra-efficient GaAs light-emitting diodes

Xiao, T. Patrick; Chen, Kaifeng; Santhanam, Parthiban; Fan, Shanhui; Yablonovitch, Eli

doi:10.1063/1.5019764

Title: Electroluminescent refrigeration by ultra-efficient GaAs light-emitting diodes

Journal Article · Fri May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5019764· OSTI ID:1470449

^[1]; Chen, Kaifeng ^[2]; Santhanam, Parthiban ^[2]; Fan, Shanhui ^[2];

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Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Electroluminescence—the conversion of electrons to photons in a light-emitting diode (LED)—can be used as a mechanism for refrigeration, provided that the LED has an exceptionally high quantum efficiency. We investigate the practical limits of present optoelectronic technology for cooling applications by optimizing a GaAs/GaInP double heterostructure LED. We develop a model of the design based on the physics of detailed balance and the methods of statistical ray optics, and predict an external luminescence efficiency of η_ext = 97.7% at 263 K. To enhance the cooling coefficient of performance, we pair the refrigerated LED with a photovoltaic cell, which partially recovers the emitted optical energy as electricity. For applications near room temperature and moderate power densities (1.0–10 mW/cm²), we project that an electroluminescent refrigerator can operate with up to 1.7× the coefficient of performance of thermoelectric coolers with ZT = 1, using the material quality in existing GaAs devices. We also predict superior cooling efficiency for cryogenic applications relative to both thermoelectric and laser cooling. Large improvements to these results are possible with optoelectronic devices that asymptotically approach unity luminescence efficiency.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1470449

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1436010

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 123, Issue 17; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 0021-8979

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