Generally, waste heat is redundantly released into the surrounding by anthropogenic
activities without strategized planning. Consequently, urban heat islands and global …

Although long known that temperature negatively affects the performances of PV devices,
research and engineering in photovoltaics has been mainly focused on reducing the optical …

The structure functions g1p and g1n have been measured over the range 0.014< x< 0.9 and
1< Q2< 40 GeV2 using deep-inelastic scattering of 48 GeV longitudinally polarized electrons …

The thermal impacts on the performance of nanoscale-gap thermophotovoltaic (nano-TPV)
power generators are investigated using a coupled near-field thermal radiation, charge, and …

Recent work has demonstrated record-high thermophotovoltaic efficiency using thin-film
InGaAs cells, but the power density of devices remains low. Elevated power densities are …

Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells are solid-state pn junction semiconductor devices that
directly convert heat into electric power. More specifically, TPV cells absorb the …

The impacts of radiative, electrical and thermal losses on the performances of nanoscale-
gap thermophotovoltaic (nano-TPV) power generators consisting of a gallium antimonide …

We report an investigation of normal-incidence GeSn-based pin photodetectors (PDs) with a
Ge 0.94 Sn 0.06 active layer grown using sputter epitaxy on a Ge (100) substrate. A low dark …

To aid in the design of low-temperature high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems,
based on low-bandgap photovoltaic (PV) diodes and selective thermal emitters, we …

Accurate modeling of charge transport and both thermal and luminescent radiation is crucial
to the understanding and design of radiative thermal energy converters. Charge-carrier …