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Most technologies for harnessing the sun’s energy capture the light itself,
which is turned into electricity using photovoltaic materials. Others use the
sun’s thermal energy, usually concentrating the sunlight with mirrors to
generate enough heat to boil water and turn a generating turbine. A third,
less common approach is to use the sun’s heat — also concentrated by mirrors —
to generate electricity directly, using solid-state devices called
thermophotovoltaics, which have their roots at MIT dating back to the 1950s.
Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to use thermophotovoltaic devices
without mirrors to concentrate the sunlight, potentially making the system
much simpler and less expensive. The key is to prevent the heat from escaping
the thermoelectric material, something the MIT team achieved by using a
photonic crystal: essentially, an array of precisely spaced microscopic holes
in a top layer of the material.
The approach mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect: Infrared radiation from the sun
can enter the chip through the holes on the surface, but the reflected rays
are blocked when they try to escape. This blockage is achieved by a precisely
designed geometry that only allows rays that fall within a very tiny range ...
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