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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 320-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2015.309
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- Army Research Office through the ISN [W911NF-13-D0001]
- S3TEC, an Energy Frontier Research Center - US Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) [DE-SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1454315] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In solar cells, the mismatch between the Sun's emission spectrum and the cells' absorption profile limits the efficiency of such devices(1), while in incandescent light bulbs, most of the energy is lost as heat(2). One way to avoid the waste of a large fraction of the radiation emitted from hot objects is to tailor the thermal emission spectrum according to the desired application. This strategy has been successfully applied to photonic-crystal emitters at moderate temperatures(3-8), but is exceedingly difficult for hot emitters (>1,000 K)(9-14). Here, we show that a plain incandescent tungsten filament (3,000 K) surrounded by a cold-side nanophotonic interference system optimized to reflect infrared light and transmit visible light for a wide range of angles could become a light source that reaches luminous efficiencies (similar to 40%) surpassing existing lighting technologies, and nearing a limit for lighting applications. We experimentally demonstrate a proof-of-principle incandescent emitter with efficiency approaching that of commercial fluorescent or light-emitting diode bulbs, but with exceptional reproduction of colours and scalable power. The ability to tailor the emission spectrum of high-temperature sources may find applications in thermophotovoltaic energy conversion(15-18) and lighting.
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