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Combustion-driven micro-thermophotovoltaic generator (μTPV)

A propane microcombustor heats a photonic-crystal selective emitter whose thermal radiation falls on low-bandgap GaInAsSb photovoltaic cells (Chan et al. 2013: 344 mW over 1 cm², 2.5 % of 13.7 W thermal input).

K6 · working transduceralso: μTPV generator, microcombustor TPV, combustion TPV, micro-TPV

Atlas record: 2 claims reference this transducer — 2 demonstrated.

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W. R. Chan et al.. Toward high-energy-density, high-efficiency, and moderate-temperature chip-scale thermophotovoltaics (2013)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110(14), 5309–5314 · doi:10.1073/pnas.1301004110 · record

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