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Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter
Start Date: September 2008
Investigators
Shanhui Fan and Peter Peumans, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Paul Braun, Material Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Annual Reports
Publications
- Losego, M., H. Zhang, A. Gardner, W. P. King, and P. V. Braun. “Nanoindentation as a route to 3D metal nanostructures,” (in preparation, 2011).
- Arpin, K. A., M. D. Losego, and P. V. Braun. “Enhancing the thermal stability of electrodeposited tungsten inverse opals,” (in preparation, 2011).
- Rephaeli E. and S. Fan. “Absorber and emitter for solar thermo-photovoltaic systems to achieve efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit,” Optics Express, 17, 17, 15145-15159, doi:10.1364/OE.17.015145 (2009).
- Sergeant, N. P., O. Pincon, M. Agrawal, and P. Peumans. “Design of wide-angle solar-selective absorbers using aperiodic metal-dielectric stacks,” Optics Express, 17, 25, 22801-22812, doi:10.1364/OE.17.02280 (2009).
- Sergeant, N. P., M. Agrawal and P. Peumans. “High performance solar-selective absorbers using sub-wavelength gratings.” Optics Express, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 5525-5540, doi:10.1364/OE.18.005525 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.005525
- Losego, M., H. Zhang, A. Gardner, W. P. King, and P. V. Braun. “Nanoindentation as a Route to 3D Metal Nanostructures.” (In preparation, 2010).
Updated June 2012
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