Near-Field Enhanced Negative Luminescent Refrigeration

作者:Chen Kaifeng; Santhanam Parthiban; Fan Shanhui*
来源:Physical Review Applied, 2016, 6(2): 024014.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.6.024014

摘要

We consider a near-field enhanced negative luminescent refrigeration system made of a polar material supporting surface-phonon polariton resonances and a narrow-band-gap semiconductor under a reverse bias. We show that in the near-field regime, such a device yields significant cooling power density and a high efficiency close to the Carnot limit. In addition, the performance of our system still persists even in the presence of strong nonidealities such as Auger recombination and sub-band-gap thermal radiation from free carriers.

  • 出版日期2016-8-18