Seebeck Nanoantennas for Solar Energy Harvesting
Materials Science
2014-09-09 v1
Abstract
We propose a mid-infrared device based on thermocouple optical antennas for light sensing and energy harvesting applications. We numerically demonstrate that antennas are able to generate low-power dc signals by beneficing of the thermoelectric properties of the metals that constitute them. We theoretically evaluate the optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency for harvesting applications and finally discuss strategies to increase its performance. Thermocouple optical antennas therefore open the route toward the design of photovoltaic devices.
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@article{arxiv.1408.6304,
title = {Seebeck Nanoantennas for Solar Energy Harvesting},
author = {E. Briones and J. Briones and A. Cuadrado and J. C. Martinez-Anton and S. McMurtry and M. Hehn and F. Montaigne and J. Alda and F. J. Gonzalez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.6304},
year = {2014}
}
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16 pages, 5 figures