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Selective emitters design and optimization for thermophotovoltaic applications

E. Nefzaoui
Jérémie Drevillon
Karl Joulain

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Among several solutions to exploit solar energy, thermophotovoltaics (TPV) have been popularized and have known great breakthroughs during the past two decades. Yet, existing systems still have low efficiencies since the wavelength range of optimal photovoltaic (PV) conversion is very small compared to the emitter spectral range. Selective emitters are a very promising solution to this problem. We developed numerical tools to design and optimize such emitters. Some of the resulting structures composed of two or four layers of metals and semiconductors are presented in this paper. We also show that the usual PV devices efficiency limits (30% for crystalline silicon under solar radiation, according to Shockley-Queisser model) can be easily overcome thanks to these structures.
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hal-01543719 , version 1 (21-06-2017)

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E. Nefzaoui, Jérémie Drevillon, Karl Joulain. Selective emitters design and optimization for thermophotovoltaic applications. Journal of Applied Physics, 2012, 111, pp.84316 - 84316. ⟨10.1063/1.4705363⟩. ⟨hal-01543719⟩
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