Open AccessAnalysis of metamaterial‐based absorber for thermo‐photovoltaic cell applications
Author(s) -
Agarwal Sajal,
Prajapati Yogendra Kumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
iet optoelectronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.379
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1751-8776
pISSN - 1751-8768
DOI - 10.1049/iet-opt.2016.0169
Subject(s) - photovoltaic system , metamaterial , materials science , optoelectronics , metamaterial absorber , tunable metamaterials , electrical engineering , engineering
This study proposed a broadband polarisation independent quad helix metamaterial‐based absorber for thermo‐photovoltaic cell (TPVC) application. Absorber is a very important part of TPVC. The design and simulation of absorber is done for wide operating wavelength range of TPVC absorber. It is observed that the average absorbance is 92.38% for the wavelength range of 340–1680 nm in the proposed absorber. Furthermore, existing absorbers which are used in thermo‐photovoltaic and solar cell are compared with proposed absorber and the proposed absorber is better in terms of operating wavelength range.