4 papers
Influence of electrical properties on thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interface
Quentin Pompidou, Juan Carlos Acosta Abanto, M. Brouillard +10
Recent experimental investigations have demonstrated that doping a semiconductor is a route to increase the thermal boundary conductance at metal/semiconductor interfaces. In this…
Far- and near-field photon noise limits to the detectivity of nanometer-thick thermal detectors
Olivier Merchiers, Aapo Varpula, Kirsi Tappura +2
Thermal-radiation detectors such as bolometers -- often found as thin, suspended films -- are intrinsically limited by their optical absorption properties and by their intrinsic th…
Performances of far and near-field thermophotonic refrigeration devices from the detailed-balance approach
Thomas Châtelet, Julien Legendre, Olivier Merchiers +1
We study a near-field thermophotonic (NF-TPX) refrigerating device, consisting of a lightemitting diode and a photovoltaic cell in close proximity. Calculations are performed in th…
Operating conditions and thermodynamic bounds of dual radiative heat engines
Julien Legendre, Pierre-Olivier Chapuis
We propose a unified description of dual radiative heat engines (RHEs), consisting of two facing optoelectronic components (diodes) and capable of generating electrical power from…