Thermophotovoltaics are promising solid-state energy converters for a variety of applications
such as grid-scale energy storage, concentrating solar-thermal power, and waste-heat …

Mechanically stacked, tandem thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells featuring integrated air-bridge
InGaAs and InGaAsP subcells achieve high spectral efficiency and emission temperature …

Recent advances in thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power generation have produced notable
gains in efficiency, particularly at very high emitter temperatures. However, there remains …

Writing recently in Nature, LaPotin et al. introduce a tandem photovoltaic cell that converts
thermal radiation into electricity with efficiencies exceeding 40%, clearly surpassing the …

Dielectrics are often employed for high-reflectivity mirrors in semiconductor devices, since
they leverage total internal reflection to reduce optical losses at semiconductor/metal …

Patterned-dielectric back contact structures in optoelectronic devices are designed to boost
the reflectance of light from the device back surface while retaining a low-resistance …

Based on near-realistic energy conversion and transport processes, a coupled model of an
InGaAs thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell is developed to analyze the influence of coupled …

The patterned dielectric back contact (PDBC) structure can be used to form a point-contact
architecture that features a dielectric spacer with spatially distributed, reduced-area metal …

Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generation is the conversion of thermal radiation to electrical
power through the photovoltaic effect. This is a promising approach for various energy …

Combining epitaxial lift-off with a dielectric-metal back mirror boosts III-V solar cells
efficiencies without sacrificing the costly growth wafer. In this work, GaAs and GaInP/GaInAs …