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Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) device is a thermoelectric conversion method with great application prospects. In the far-field regime, the thermoelectric power is usually small due to the Planck blackbody radiation limit, but can be substantially enhanced in the near-field regime where evanescent waves will participate in the heat transfer by tunneling. In this aspect, the surface optical density of state is a key factor that will determine the transfer conversion of thermal photons. Plasmonic or phononic resonance materials have been discussed in the literature to acquire large heat flux. Besides, metamaterial is another way to pursue the design freedoms for the same purpose. In this work, we propose a [CaF2/W]n multilayer based infrared hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) with high surface density of states as an emitter of a high-performance TPV cell made of an InSb p-n junction (energy bandgap = 0.17 eV). The effective medium theory (EMT) is utilized to describe the electromagnetic behavior of the HMM. The near-field heat flux is calculated based on electrodynamic wave theory and Green's function method, and the photocurrent of thermophotovoltaic device is derived using diffusion equation for semiconductor. For comparison, we design three different radiators, i.e. tungsten film (W), [GaF2/W]n multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM), and tungsten-grounded HMM (WHMM). Compared with the pure tungsten radiator, the artificial structure exhibits the hyperbolic dispersion characteristic in a wide frequency range, which gives rise to a higher local density of states, in particular in the hyperbolic-to-elliptic spectral transition region. As a result, the radiation power and the energy conversion efficiency are greatly enhanced, which are more easily realized by a matched emission band achieved by the structural design. We find that the thermophotovoltaic device with WHMM radiator has a similar power and conversion efficiency to that with the HMM radiator. The influence of the substrate can be ignored when the hyperbolic metamaterial is thicker than 140 nm, very beneficial to the actual fabrication of the device. By our system, with multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) radiator, a high electric power >1 W/m2 and a conversion efficiency about 11% can be obtained at a bias temperature of 200 K and a 100 nm vacuum gap. Compared with nanowire arrays or natural hyperbolic material, the multilayer structure proposed in this paper has obvious advantages in bandwidth and manufacturing and may find important applications in near-field thermophotovoltaic device and other relevant areas.
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Keywords:
- near-field thermal radiation /
- hyperbolic metamaterial /
- thermophotovoltaic cell /
- heat recycling
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图 1 p-n结型热光伏器件示意图
Figure 1. Schematic of the near-field TPV system with a p-n junction.
图 2 (a)钨和CaF2组成的人工介质材料的介电系数; (b)半导体锑化铟的介电系数谱
Figure 2. (a) Effective dielectric function of the HMM emitter; (b) permittivity of InSb.
图 3 距离为50 nm时的透射几率τp的分布 (a), (b), (c) 对应的源的结构分别是W, WHMM, HMM时的情形; (d) 间距为50 nm时的热传输谱
Figure 3. p-polarization transmission possibility τp(ω, kx) with the emitter (a) W, (b) WHMM, (c) HMM; (d) thermal radiation spectrum.
图 4 (a)不同源结构下热能传输谱
$ {h}_{\omega } $ 的分布; (b), (c)和(d)分别是在p-n结内的p区区域的热能分布hz (z, ω), 其中源的结构分别是(b) W, (c) WHMM, (d) HMMFigure 4. (a) Heat flux density spectrum with the emitter of W, WHMM and HMM; and heat flux density in the p-region with the emitter of (b) W, (c) WHMM, and (d) HMM.
图 5 间距为d = 50 nm时的电流谱 (a) p区
$ {j}_{\mathrm{e}}\left(\omega \right) $ ; (b) n区$ {j}_{\mathrm{h}}\left(\omega \right) $ ; (c) 耗尽层内$ {j}_{\mathrm{d}\mathrm{p}}\left(\omega \right) $ ; (d) p-n结内的总电流大小$ {j}_{\mathrm{t}} $ 随间距的变化Figure 5. Current density spectrum in the (a) p-region, (b) n-region, and (c) depletion region; (d) total current with respect to the vacuum gap width.
图 6 (a)不同结构作为源时的辐射热流h随间距的变化; (b)热光伏器件的总输出功率PE与热能转换效率η随间距的变化
Figure 6. (a) Total heat flux density and (b) net power and conversion efficiency of the proposed system as a function of the vacuum gap width.
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[1] Hoffert M I, Caldeira K, Jain A K, Haites E F, Harvey L D D, Potter S D, Schlesinger M E, Schneider S H, Watts R G, Wigley T M L, Wuebbles D J 1998 Nature 395 881
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[3] Liu W S, Jie Q, Kim H S, Ren Z F 2015 Acta Mater. 87 357
Google Scholar
[4] Alam H, Ramakrishna S 2013 Nano Energy 2 190
Google Scholar
[5] Chan W R, Bermel P, Pilawa-Podgurski R C N, Marton C H, Jensen K F, Senkevich J J, Joannopoulos J D, Soljacic M, Celanovic I 2013 PNAS 110 5309
Google Scholar
[6] Bierman D M, Lenert A, Chan W R, Bhatia B, Celanovic I, Soljacic M, Wang E N 2016 Nat. Energy 1 16068
Google Scholar
[7] Whale M D, Cravalho E G 2002 IEEE Trans. Energy Convers. 17 130
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