Journal
ACS PHOTONICS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 1-9Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00679
Keywords
sustainable energy; thermoradiative; photovoltaics; radiative cooling emissive energy harvester; atmospheric transparency window
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- University of Maryland Clark Fellowship
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Photovoltaics possess significant potential due to the abundance of solar power incident on earth; however, they can only generate electricity during daylight hours. In order to produce electrical power after the sun has set, we consider an alternative photovoltaic concept that uses the earth as a heat source and the night sky as a heat sink, resulting in a nighttime photovoltaic cell that employs thermoradiative photovoltaics and concepts from the advancing field of radiative cooling. In this Perspective, we discuss the principles of thermoradiative photovoltaics, the theoretical limits of applying this concept to coupling with deep space, the potential of advanced radiative cooling techniques to enhance their performance, and a discussion of the practical limits, scalability, and integrability of this nighttime photovoltaic concept.
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