Title :
Cascaded interband/intersubband thermophotovoltaic energy conversion
Author :
Yin, J. ; Paiella, R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
Abstract :
The use of interband/intersubband photodetection for thermophotovoltaic energy conversion is numerically investigated. The simulation results indicate that this approach can double the present state-of-the-art in thermophotovoltaic power generation.
Keywords :
photodetectors; photovoltaic power systems; thermoelectric conversion; cascaded interband thermophotovoltaic energy conversion; interband-intersubband photodetection; intersubband thermophotovoltaic energy conversion; thermophotovoltaic power generation; Energy conversion; Materials; P-n junctions; Photonics; Photovoltaic systems;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
