Nanogap near-field thermophotovoltaics

Fiorino, Anthony; Zhu, Linxiao; Thompson, Dakotah; Mittapally, Rohith; Reddy, Pramod; Meyhofer, Edgar

doi:10.1038/s41565-018-0172-5

Nanogap near-field thermophotovoltaics

Journal Article · 18 June 2018 · Nature Nanotechnology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-018-0172-5· OSTI ID:1539835

Fiorino, Anthony; Zhu, Linxiao; Thompson, Dakotah; Mittapally, Rohith; ;

Not provided.

Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0004871

OSTI ID:: 1539835

Journal Information:: Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 13, Issue 9; ISSN 1748-3387

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (28)

Complex thermoelectric materials No authors listed Nature Materials https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2090		February 2008
Modeling and performance of microscale thermophotovoltaic energy conversion devices No authors listed IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion https://doi.org/10.1109/60.986450		March 2002
Surface modes for near field thermophotovoltaics No authors listed Applied Physics Letters https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1575936		May 2003
Near-field thermophotovoltaic energy conversion No authors listed Journal of Applied Physics https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2234560		September 2006
Microscale radiation in thermophotovoltaic devices—A review No authors listed International Journal of Energy Research https://doi.org/10.1002/er.1286		January 2007
Performance analysis of near-field thermophotovoltaic devices considering absorption distribution No authors listed Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.08.022		January 2008
Performance of Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Cells Enhanced With a Backside Reflector No authors listed Journal of Heat Transfer https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4026455		March 2014
Thin-film ‘Thermal Well’ Emitters and Absorbers for High-Efficiency Thermophotovoltaics No authors listed Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10661		June 2015
Suppressing sub-bandgap phonon-polariton heat transfer in near-field thermophotovoltaic devices for waste heat recovery No authors listed Applied Physics Letters https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4929949		August 2015
Thermal energy conversion using near-field thermophotovoltaic device composed of a thin-film tungsten radiator and a thin-film silicon cell No authors listed Journal of Applied Physics https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4989870		August 2017
High-performance near-field thermophotovoltaics for waste heat recovery No authors listed Nano Energy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.09.054		November 2017
Theory of Radiative Heat Transfer between Closely Spaced Bodies No authors listed Physical Review B https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.4.3303		November 1971
Radiative exchange of heat between nanostructures No authors listed Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/11/35/301		August 1999
Surface electromagnetic waves thermally excited: Radiative heat transfer, coherence properties and Casimir forces revisited in the near field No authors listed Surface Science Reports https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfrep.2004.12.002		May 2005
Review of near-field thermal radiation and its application to energy conversion No authors listed International Journal of Energy Research https://doi.org/10.1002/er.1607		October 2009
Near-field radiative thermal transport: From theory to experiment No authors listed AIP Advances https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919048		May 2015
Ideal near-field thermophotovoltaic cells No authors listed Physical Review B https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.205435		May 2015
Radiative heat conductances between dielectric and metallic parallel plates with nanoscale gaps No authors listed Nature Nanotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.17		March 2016
Enhanced photogeneration of carriers in a semiconductor via coupling across a nonisothermal nanoscale vacuum gap No authors listed Applied Physics Letters https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1400762		September 2001
Micron-gap ThermoPhotoVoltaics (MTPV) No authors listed THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY: Sixth Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity: TPV6, AIP Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1841878		January 2004
A platform to parallelize planar surfaces and control their spatial separation with nanometer resolution No authors listed Review of Scientific Instruments https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4754643		October 2012
Enhancement of near-field radiative heat transfer using polar dielectric thin films No authors listed Nature Nanotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.6		February 2015
Scattering-matrix treatment of patterned multilayer photonic structures No authors listed Physical Review B https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.60.2610		July 1999
Solution of near-field thermal radiation in one-dimensional layered media using dyadic Green's functions and the scattering matrix method No authors listed Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.05.010		December 2009
Near-complete violation of detailed balance in thermal radiation No authors listed Physical Review B https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.90.220301		December 2014
Near-field radiative heat transfer between parallel structures in the deep subwavelength regime No authors listed Nature Nanotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.20		March 2016
A nanophotonic solar thermophotovoltaic device No authors listed Nature Nanotechnology https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.286		January 2014
Refractory Plasmonics No authors listed Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1252722		April 2014

Similar Records

Enhancement and Saturation of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer in Nanogaps between Metallic Surfaces

Journal Article · 2022 · Physical Review Letters · OSTI ID:1980328

Rincón-García, Laura; Thompson, Dakotah; Mittapally, Rohith; +3 more

Probing the Limits to Near-Field Heat Transfer Enhancements in Phonon-Polaritonic Materials

Journal Article · 2023 · Nano Letters · OSTI ID:2419660

Mittapally, Rohith; Lim, Ju Won; Zhang, Lang; +3 more

A Computational Simulation of Using Tungsten Gratings in Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Devices

Journal Article · 2017 · Journal of Heat Transfer · OSTI ID:1536800

Watjen, J. I.; Liu, X. L.; Zhao, B.; +1 more

Related Subjects

Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science

Nanogap near-field thermophotovoltaics

Citation Formats

References (28)

Similar Records

Related Subjects