在空桥热光电池中近乎完美的光子利用
Dejiu Fan1, Tobias Burger2, Sean McSherry2
1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Nature
|September 22, 2020
概括
研究人员开发了一种新的热光电池, 使用空气桥来反射低能光子, 显著减少寄生虫吸收. 这一突破将电力转换效率提高到30%以上,
科学领域:
- 材料科学
- 能源转换
- 光电子产品
背景情况:
- 热光电 (TPV) 电池将热辐射转化为电力,用于储能和废热回收.
- 高效率需要利用广泛的热谱,但低能光子由于效率低下而构成挑战.
- 目前的光子回收方法带宽和寄生体吸收有限,阻碍TPV的效率.
研究的目的:
- 通过改善光子回收来克服当前热光电池的局限性.
- 在TPV细胞中展示一种近乎完美的低能光子反射的新方法.
- 为了实现更高的功率转换效率,并扩大TPV应用的潜在热源.
主要方法:
- 在薄膜化物 (InGaAs) 细胞内嵌入一个空气桥梁以创建光子晶体.
- 实现近乎完美的低能光子反射,最大限度地减少寄生虫吸收.
- 测量使用碳化发射器在约1455克尔文的功率转换效率.
主要成果:
- 证明了近乎完美的低能光子反射, 减少了寄生虫吸收的四倍.
- 在绝对效率上取得了超过6%的显著收益.
- 通过1455K的发射器实现了超过30%的功率转换效率.
结论:
- 空桥方法有效地增强了热光电池中的光子回收.
- 开发的TPV电池表现出高效率和降低对电池带隙和发射器温度的敏感性.
- 这种进步为热光伏能源转换提供了更广泛的材料和热源的可能性.
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