A coherent description of thermal radiative devices and its application on the near-field negative electroluminescent cooling

Lin, Chungwei; Wang, Bingnan; Teo, Koon Hoo; Zhang, Zhuomin

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2018.01.005

Title: A coherent description of thermal radiative devices and its application on the near-field negative electroluminescent cooling

Journal Article · Thu Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Energy (Oxford)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.01.005· OSTI ID:1594757

Lin, Chungwei ^[1]; Wang, Bingnan ^[1]; Teo, Koon Hoo ^[1]; Zhang, Zhuomin ^[2]

Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)

Using the transmissivity between two thermal reservoirs and the generalized Planck distributions, we describe the devices that use radiative energy transfer between thermal reservoirs in a unified formalism. In this work, four types of devices are distinguished. For power generators that use the temperature difference between reservoirs, photovoltaic (PV) and thermoradiative (TR) devices respectively use the low temperature photovoltaic cell and high-temperature thermoradiative cell to generate electricity. For active cooling, the electroluminescent (EL) cooling devices apply a forward bias voltage on the object we want to cool, whereas the negative EL cooling devices apply a reverse bias voltage to the heat sink. The relationship among these four devices is explicated. The performance of the negative EL cooling is analyzed, both in the Shockley-Queisser (blackbody spectrum and radiative recombination) framework and the near-field enhancement. The “impedance match” condition derived for PV systems is applied to the negative EL devices. One advantageous feature of the negative EL cooling is that it does not apply the voltage to the target object which we want to cool, and the near-field enhancement can apply to various target materials that support the surface resonant modes.

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Research Organization:: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0018369; FG02-06ER46343

OSTI ID:: 1594757

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1991411

Journal Information:: Energy (Oxford), Vol. 147, Issue C; ISSN 0360-5442

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