Analysis of metamaterial-based absorber for thermo-photovoltaic cell applications

This study proposed a broadband polarisation independent quad helix metamaterial-based absorber for thermo-photovoltaic cell (TPVC) application. Absorber is a very important part of TPVC. The design and simulation of absorber is done for wide operating wavelength range of TPVC absorber. It is observ...

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Published inIET optoelectronics Vol. 11; no. 5; pp. 208 - 212
Main Authors Agarwal, Sajal, Prajapati, Yogendra Kumar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Institution of Engineering and Technology 01.10.2017
Subjects
metamaterial‐based absorber
optical design techniques
optical metamaterials
Research Article
solar cell
solar cells
thermophotovoltaic cells
thermo‐photovoltaic cell applications
TPVC
thermophotovoltaic cells
thermo-photovoltaic cell applications
optical metamaterials
metamaterial-based absorber
solar cells
optical design techniques
TPVC
solar cell
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Summary:This study proposed a broadband polarisation independent quad helix metamaterial-based absorber for thermo-photovoltaic cell (TPVC) application. Absorber is a very important part of TPVC. The design and simulation of absorber is done for wide operating wavelength range of TPVC absorber. It is observed that the average absorbance is 92.38% for the wavelength range of 340–1680 nm in the proposed absorber. Furthermore, existing absorbers which are used in thermo-photovoltaic and solar cell are compared with proposed absorber and the proposed absorber is better in terms of operating wavelength range.
ISSN:1751-8768
1751-8776
1751-8776
DOI:10.1049/iet-opt.2016.0169