Nighttime Photovoltaic Cells: Electrical power generation by optically couping with deep space
dc.contributor.advisor | Munday, Jeremy N | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Deppe, Tristan | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Electrical Engineering | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-10T05:32:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-10T05:32:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | 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 radiative cooling to output as much as 10 W/m^2 from ambient radiation. This thesis will discuss the principles of thermoradiative photovoltaics, the theoretical limits of coupling a device 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/kunv-6kd0 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/26185 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Electrical engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Physics | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Radiative Cooling | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Renewable Energy | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Thermoradiative Photovoltaics | en_US |
dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Waste Heat Recovery | en_US |
dc.title | Nighttime Photovoltaic Cells: Electrical power generation by optically couping with deep space | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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