Solar thermophotovoltaics: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

Nanogap near-field thermophotovoltaics

(2018) Anthony Fiorino et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Specular side reflectors for high efficiency thermal-to-optical energy conversion

(2018) Arny Leroy et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Thermodynamic limits of energy harvesting from outgoing thermal radiation

(2018) Siddharth Buddhiraju et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Solar-pumped Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic laser with 6.7% slope efficiency

(2018) Dawei Liang et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Thin-Film Architectures with High Spectral Selectivity for Thermophotovoltaic Cells

(2018) Tobias Burger et al.   ACS Photonics

Hybrid Solar Absorber-Emitter by Coherence-Enhanced Absorption for Improved Solar Thermophotovoltaic Conversion

(2018) Yang Wang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Plasmonic metamaterial based unified broadband absorber/near infrared emitter for thermophotovoltaic system based on hexagonally packed tungsten doughnuts

(2017) Saraswati Behera et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Perfect Thermal Emission by Nanoscale Transmission Line Resonators

(2017) Baoan Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Angle-Selective Reflective Filters for Exclusion of Background Thermal Emission

(2017) Enas Sakr et al.   Physical Review Applied

Unidirectional radiative heat transfer with a spectrally selective planar absorber/emitter for high-efficiency solar thermophotovoltaic systems

(2016) Asaka Kohiyama et al.   Applied Physics Express

Integrated photonic crystal selective emitter for thermophotovoltaics

(2016) Zhiguang Zhou et al.   Journal of Nanophotonics

3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination

(2016) Lin Zhou et al.   Nature Photonics

Graphene oxide-based efficient and scalable solar desalination under one sun with a confined 2D water path

(2016) Xiuqiang Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Concentrating solar thermoelectric generators with a peak efficiency of 7.4%

(2016) Daniel Kraemer et al.   Nature Energy

Enhanced photovoltaic energy conversion using thermally based spectral shaping

(2016) David M. Bierman et al.   Nature Energy

Large-Scale Nanophotonic Solar Selective Absorbers for High-Efficiency Solar Thermal Energy Conversion

(2015) Pengfei Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Three-dimensional metallo-dielectric selective thermal emitters with high-temperature stability for thermophotovoltaic applications

(2015) Moisés Garín et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

A hot-electron thermophotonic solar cell demonstrated by thermal up-conversion of sub-bandgap photons

(2015) Daniel J. Farrell et al.   Nature Communications

Near-field radiative thermal transport: From theory to experiment

(2015) Bai Song et al.   AIP Advances

High-efficiency solar-thermophotovoltaic system equipped with a monolithic planar selective absorber/emitter

(2015) Makoto Shimizu et al.   Journal of Photonics for Energy

Titanium-nitride-based integrated plasmonic absorber/emitter for solar thermophotovoltaic application

(2015) Huacun Wang et al.   Photonics Research

Investigation of InGaAs thermophotovoltaic cells under blackbody radiation

(2014) Ming Tan et al.   Applied Physics Express

A review of cermet-based spectrally selective solar absorbers

(2014) Feng Cao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A nanophotonic solar thermophotovoltaic device

(2014) Andrej Lenert et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Role of spectral non-idealities in the design of solar thermophotovoltaics

(2014) Andrej Lenert et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Solar steam generation by heat localization

(2014) Hadi Ghasemi et al.   Nature Communications

Metallic Photonic Crystal Absorber-Emitter for Efficient Spectral Control in High-Temperature Solar Thermophotovoltaics

(2014) Veronika Rinnerbauer et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Enhanced Thermal Stability of W-Ni-Al2O3Cermet-Based Spectrally Selective Solar Absorbers with Tungsten Infrared Reflectors

(2014) Feng Cao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High performance multi-scaled nanostructured spectrally selective coating for concentrating solar power

(2014) Jaeyun Moon et al.   Nano Energy

Optimization of In0.68Ga0.32As Thermophotovoltaic Device Grown on Compositionally Nonmonotonically Graded InAsP Buffer by Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition

(2013) Ming Tan et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Rear illumination monolithically integrated GaSb thermophotovoltaic devices grown on semi-insulating GaAs substrate

(2013) J. M. Borrego et al.   Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Recent developments in high-temperature photonic crystals for energy conversion

(2012) Veronika Rinnerbauer et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Efficiency of continuous-wave solar pumped semiconductor lasers

(2012) Stanley Johnson et al.   OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY

High temperature epsilon-near-zero and epsilon-near-pole metamaterial emitters for thermophotovoltaics

(2012) Sean Molesky et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Development and experimental evaluation of a complete solar thermophotovoltaic system

(2012) Alejandro Datas et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Metamaterial-based integrated plasmonic absorber/emitter for solar thermo-photovoltaic systems

(2012) Chihhui Wu et al.   Journal of Optics

Thermophotonic heat pump—a theoretical model and numerical simulations

(2010) Jani Oksanen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Fundamental losses in solar cells

(2010) Louise C. Hirst et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Detailed balance analysis of solar thermophotovoltaic systems made up of single junction photovoltaic cells and broadband thermal emitters

(2010) A. Datas et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Absorber and emitter for solar thermo-photovoltaic systems to achieve efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit

(2009) Eden Rephaeli et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS