A Review on Thermophotovoltaic Cell and Its Applications in Energy Conversion: Issues and Recommendations.

Generally, waste heat is redundantly released into the surrounding by anthropogenic activities without strategized planning. Consequently, urban heat islands and global warming chronically increases over time. Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems can be potentially deployed to harvest waste heat and recuperate energy to tackle this global issue with supplementary generation of electrical energy.

Multi-dimensional optimization of InGaAs thermophotovoltaic cell using real coded genetic algorithm.

The optimization of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cell efficiency is essential since it leads to a significant increase in the output power. Typically, the optimization of InGaAs TPV cell has been limited to single variable such as the emitter thickness, while the effects of the variation in other design variables are assumed to be negligible. The reported efficiencies of InGaAs TPV cell mostly remain < 15%.