Entropic and Near-Field Improvements of Thermoradiative Cells

A p-n junction maintained at above ambient temperature can work as a heat engine, converting some of the supplied heat into electricity and rejecting entropy by interband emission. Such thermoradiative cells have potential to harvest low-grade heat into electricity. By analyzing the entropy content...

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Main Authors: Hsu, Wei-Chun, Tong, Jonathan K., Liao, Bolin, Huang, Yi, Boriskina, Svetlana V, Chen, Gang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107786
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