Metallic photonic crystal absorber-emitter for efficient spectral control in high-temperature solar thermophotovoltaics

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Rinnerbauer, Veronika ^a   Lenert, Andrej ^b   Bierman, David M ^b   Yeng, Yi Xiang ^a   Chan, Walker R ^a   Geil, Robert D ^c   Senkevich, Jay J ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Wang, Evelyn N ^b   Soljačic̈, Marin ^a   Celanovic, Ivan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

metallic photonic crystals; selective absorbers; selective emitters; solar energy conversion; solar thermophotovoltaics

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE;

HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIAL PROPERTIES; METALLIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; SELECTIVE ABSORBERS; SELECTIVE EMITTERS; SOLAR THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; THERMOPHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 84906783609     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400334     Document Type: Article

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