This article provides an in-depth review of charge transport models utilized to analyze the
performance of near-field thermophotovoltaic (NF-TPV) devices, and a comprehensive …

A review on current development of thermophotovoltaic technology in heat recovery Page 1
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT • OPEN ACCESS A …

Several experiments have shown a huge enhancement in thermal radiation over the
blackbody limit when two objects are separated by nanoscale gaps. Although those …

Controlling the thermal emission characteristics of a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) emitter can
effectively reduce the thermal losses in a photovoltaic cell. Moreover, selective TPV emitters …

The present work successfully achieves a strong enhancement in performance of a near-
field thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system operating at low temperature and large-vacuum-gap …

Recent experimental studies on near-field thermophotovoltaic energy conversion have
mainly focused on improving performance via photon tunneling of evanescent waves. In the …

Fluctuational electrodynamics and minority carrier diffusion equations are applied to
evaluate the electric power output of a near-field tandem thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system …

Simulations of near-field thermophotovoltaic devices predict promising performance, but
experimental observations remain challenging. Having the lowest bandgap among III-V …

In this study, we demonstrate that the radiative heat transfer between metallic planar
surfaces exceeds the blackbody limit by employing the near-field and thin-film effects over …

An indium arsenide photovoltaic cell with gold front contacts is designed for use in a near-
field thermophotovoltaic (NF-TPV) device consisting of millimeter-size surfaces separated by …