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SUBMITTER: Blandre E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5696483 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blandre Etienne E Chapuis Pierre-Olivier PO Vaillon Rodolphe R
Scientific reports 20171120 1
In near-field thermophotovoltaics, a substantial enhancement of the electrical power output is expected as a result of the larger photogeneration of electron-hole pairs due to the tunneling of evanescent modes from the thermal radiator to the photovoltaic cell. The common low-injection approximation, which considers that the local carrier density due to photogeneration is moderate in comparison to that due to doping, needs therefore to be assessed. By solving the full drift-diffusion equations, ...[more]