Thermoradiative diode presentation at the IEEE PVSC

Ned delivered a presentation on "Demonstrating the Thermoradiative Diode: 'Generating Electrical Power Through Radiative Emission' at the 49th IEEE Photovoltaic Specalists conference in Philadelphia. If you missed the presentation you can catch it online below.

Questions are welcome, email Ned at : nekins@unsw.edu.au

Quick links to useful papers:

Experimental demonstration:

• Nielsen, M. P., Pusch, A., Sazzad, M. H., Pearce, P. M., Reece, P. J., & Ekins-Daukes, N. J. (2022). Thermoradiative Power Conversion from HgCdTe Photodiodes and Their Current–Voltage Characteristics. ACS Photonics, 9(5), 1535-1540.

Thermoradiative concept:

• Byrnes, S. J., Blanchard, R., & Capasso, F. (2014). Harvesting renewable energy from Earth’s mid-infrared emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(11), 3927-3932.

• Strandberg, R. (2015). Theoretical efficiency limits for thermoradiative energy conversion. Journal of Applied Physics, 117(5), 055105.

• Buddhiraju, S., Santhanam, P., & Fan, S. (2018). Thermodynamic limits of energy harvesting from outgoing thermal radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(16), E3609-E3615.

• Pusch, A., Gordon, J. M., Mellor, A., Krich, J. J., & Ekins-Daukes, N. J. (2019). Fundamental Efficiency Bounds for the Conversion of a Radiative Heat Engine’s Own Emission into Work. Physical Review Applied, 12(6), 064018.

• Ekins-Daukes, N. J., Sazzad, M. H., Al Kiyumi, L., Nielsen, M. P., Reece, P., Mellor, A., Green, M. A., & Pusch, A.  (2020). Generating Power at Night Using a Thermoradiative Diode, How is this possible.  In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference, (pp. 2214-2218).