Enhanced efficiency of solar-driven thermoelectric generator with femtosecond laser-textured metals

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 104, 2011, Pages A824-A829

  Hwang, Taek Yong ^a   Vorobyev, A Y ^a   Guo, Chunlei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM FOIL; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

AL FOIL; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; FEMTOSECOND LASER IRRADIATION; FEMTOSECONDS; SURFACE NANOSTRUCTURE; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; UV- AND;

INFRARED LASERS;

EID: 79959908490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A824     Document Type: Article

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