High-performance near-field electroluminescent refrigeration device consisting of a GaAs light emitting diode and a Si photovoltaic cell

Chen, Kaifeng; Xiao, Tianyao P.; Santhanam, Parthiban; Yablonovitch, Eli; Fan, Shanhui

doi:10.1063/1.5007712

Title: High-performance near-field electroluminescent refrigeration device consisting of a GaAs light emitting diode and a Si photovoltaic cell

Journal Article · 13 October 2017 · Journal of Applied Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5007712 · OSTI ID:1470394

Chen, Kaifeng ^[1]; Xiao, Tianyao P. ^[2]; Santhanam, Parthiban ^[1]; Yablonovitch, Eli ^[2]; Fan, Shanhui ^[1]

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

We consider a near-field electroluminescent refrigeration device. The device uses a GaAs light emitting diode as the cold side, and a Si photovoltaic cell as the hot side. The two sides are brought in close proximity to each other across a vacuum gap. The cooling is achieved by applying a positive bias on the GaAs light emitting diode. We show that the choice of GaAs and Si here can suppress the non-idealities for electroluminescent cooling purposes: GaAs has a wide bandgap with low Auger recombination, and Si is a non-polar semiconductor which leads to significantly reduced sub-bandgap heat transfer. We show that by using this configuration in the near-field regime, the cooling power density can reach 10⁵ W/m² even in the presence of realistic Auger recombination and Shockley-Read-Hall recombination. In addition, with photovoltaic power recovery from the Si cell, the efficiency of the device can be further improved. Our work points to the significant potential of combining near-field heat transfer with active semiconductor devices for the control of heat flow.

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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:: 1470394

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1399295

Journal Information:: Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 122, Issue 14; 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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