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@article{Harrison:2024:10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346,
author = {Harrison, JA and Pearce, PM and Yang, F and Nielsen, MP and Brindley, HE and Ekins-Daukes, NJ},
doi = {10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346},
journal = {iScience},
title = {Evaluating potential power output of terrestrial thermoradiative diodes with atmospheric modelling},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346},
year = {2024}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - A thermoradiative diode is a device that can generate power through thermal emission from the warm Earth to the cold night sky. Accurate assessment of the potential power output requires knowledge of the downwelling radiation from the atmosphere. Here, accurate modelling of this radiation is used alongside a detailed balance model of a diode at the Earth’s surface temperature to evaluate its performance under nine different atmospheric conditions. In the radiative limit, these conditions yield power densities between 0.34 and 6.5 W.m-2, with optimal bandgaps near 0.094 eV. Restricting the angles of emission and absorption to less than a full hemisphere can marginally increase the power output. Accounting for non-radiative processes, we suggest that if a 0.094 eV device would have radiative efficiencies more than two orders of magnitude lower than a diode with a bandgap near 0.25 eV, the higher bandgap material is preferred.
AU - Harrison,JA
AU - Pearce,PM
AU - Yang,F
AU - Nielsen,MP
AU - Brindley,HE
AU - Ekins-Daukes,NJ
DO - 10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346
PY - 2024///
SN - 2589-0042
TI - Evaluating potential power output of terrestrial thermoradiative diodes with atmospheric modelling
T2 - iScience
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.111346
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/115907
ER -