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Thermophotovoltaics: A hot topic in the UK

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Both efficiency and bandgap engineering provide electricity via heat waste recovery.

Jörg Schwartz, European Correspondent, [email protected]

Two British consortia have received funding from the country’s Technology Strategy Board for the development of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) technology. One project, now finished, set a record for energy conversion efficiency; the other, focusing on a different material platform, has just begun. Thermophotovoltaic systems consist of solar cells that bring their own sun – where the “sun,” or emitter, usually is radiating in the infrared spectral range, and the actual cells converting the photons into electrons are different from standard solar cells, which are tailored for high efficiency in...Read full article

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    Published: August 2009
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