High-temperature, spectrally-selective, scalable, and flexible thin-film Si absorber and emitter
Abstract
Solar thermal technologies have great potential to provide low-cost storage for solar energy. However, their efficiencies are limited by a lack of scalable, mechanically flexible, durable, yet highly-efficient spectrally-selective solar absorbers suitable for high temperatures at low solar concentrations. Here, we overcome these challenges by fabricating a scalable free-standing spectrally-selective thin-film Si absorber and emitter (SSTFS) composite. Its high-temperature emittance shows strong spectral selectivity, even at 595 °C. Thermal stability is proven by measuring optical properties before and after thermal cycling equivalent to one day of concentrated sunlight. Despite the use of crystalline Si, the fabricated SSTFS composite exhibits exceptional mechanical flexibility to cover most surface geometries. The SSTFS composite demonstrates the potential of high-temperature, efficient and flexible solar absorbers and thermal emitters to advance renewable solar energy with storage.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1580169
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1799169
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0004946
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Optical Materials Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optical Materials Express Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2159-3930
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Materials Science; Optics
Citation Formats
Zhou, Zhiguang, Tian, Hao, Hymel, Thomas M., Reddy, Harsha, Shalaev, Vladimir M., Cui, Yi, and Bermel, Peter. High-temperature, spectrally-selective, scalable, and flexible thin-film Si absorber and emitter. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1364/OME.381680.
Zhou, Zhiguang, Tian, Hao, Hymel, Thomas M., Reddy, Harsha, Shalaev, Vladimir M., Cui, Yi, & Bermel, Peter. High-temperature, spectrally-selective, scalable, and flexible thin-film Si absorber and emitter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.381680
Zhou, Zhiguang, Tian, Hao, Hymel, Thomas M., Reddy, Harsha, Shalaev, Vladimir M., Cui, Yi, and Bermel, Peter. Mon .
"High-temperature, spectrally-selective, scalable, and flexible thin-film Si absorber and emitter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.381680.
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title = {High-temperature, spectrally-selective, scalable, and flexible thin-film Si absorber and emitter},
author = {Zhou, Zhiguang and Tian, Hao and Hymel, Thomas M. and Reddy, Harsha and Shalaev, Vladimir M. and Cui, Yi and Bermel, Peter},
abstractNote = {Solar thermal technologies have great potential to provide low-cost storage for solar energy. However, their efficiencies are limited by a lack of scalable, mechanically flexible, durable, yet highly-efficient spectrally-selective solar absorbers suitable for high temperatures at low solar concentrations. Here, we overcome these challenges by fabricating a scalable free-standing spectrally-selective thin-film Si absorber and emitter (SSTFS) composite. Its high-temperature emittance shows strong spectral selectivity, even at 595 °C. Thermal stability is proven by measuring optical properties before and after thermal cycling equivalent to one day of concentrated sunlight. Despite the use of crystalline Si, the fabricated SSTFS composite exhibits exceptional mechanical flexibility to cover most surface geometries. The SSTFS composite demonstrates the potential of high-temperature, efficient and flexible solar absorbers and thermal emitters to advance renewable solar energy with storage.},
doi = {10.1364/OME.381680},
journal = {Optical Materials Express},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {12}
}
https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.381680
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