Material candidates for thermally robust applications of selective thermophotovoltaic emitters

M Oh, J McElearney, A Lemire, TE Vandervelde - Physical Review Materials, 2022 - APS
As the majority of the input energy in power generation or energy consumption processes
goes to waste as heat, thermophotovoltaic (TPV) devices enable energy recovery from …

Titanium-nitride-based integrated plasmonic absorber/emitter for solar thermophotovoltaic application

H Wang, Q Chen, L Wen, S Song, X Hu, G Xu - Photonics Research, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Titanium nitride (TiN) as a refractory plasmonic material is proposed to be used as an angle-
insensitive integrated broadband solar absorber and narrowband near-infrared (NIR) emitter …

Broad area, selective-emitters for high temperature operation

J Chivers, T Vandervelde - 2017 IEEE 60th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermophotovoltaic and rectenna devices can be greatly improved by frequency-selective
emitters, which narrow the emission spectrum of a heat source to couple to the most efficient …