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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
May. 09, 2019
U.s. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD (US);
Patrick J. Taylor, Vienna, VA (US);
Harry S. Hier, Sykesville, MD (US);
Ivan C. Lee, Excelsior, MN (US);
Mark Dubinsky, Olney, MD (US);
Zun Zhang, Fairfax, VA (US);
Priyalal S. Wijewarnasuriya, Germantown, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
Method and system for wavelength thermophotovoltaic (WTPV) power generation. In one embodiment, the system comprises a refractory waveguide that collects broadband infrared light generated by a heat source; a filter that filters the collected broadband infrared light to generate narrow-band infrared light; and a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) converter, thermally de-coupled from the heat source, that receives the narrow-band infrared light and converts the received narrow-band infrared light to electrical power.