Direct conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state approaches is a rapidly advancing area
of research owing to its prospective use in recovering waste heat and in energy storage and …

Thermionic energy converters are solid‐state heat engines that have the potential to
produce electricity with efficiencies of over 30% and area‐specific power densities of 100 …

Wearable electronics play a crucial role in advancing the rapid development of artificial
intelligence, and as an attractive future vision, all-in-one wearable microsystems integrating …

The exhaust heat released from SOFCs (solid oxide fuel cells) possesses tremendous
energy that can be recovered for energy cascade utilization. Nevertheless, low conversion …

Both thermionic and thermophotovoltaic solid-state energy converters are being actively
explored due to high output potential. Recently, hybrid thermionic-photovoltaic (TIPV) …

Thermionic-photovoltaic (TIPV) converters exploit both electrons and photons emitted by a
hot cathode to produce electric power. In this work, a TIPV converter structured with a …

Dielectric microspacers (DMS) are important components in thermal energy converters.
Engineered DMS are fabricated and characterized on different substrates by depositing …

Thermal and concentrated solar solid-state converters are devices with no moving parts,
corresponding to long lifetimes, limited necessity of maintenance, and scalability. Among the …

We present a solar thermionic energy converter (STEC) incorporating interelectrode spacer
structures for solar energy harvesting. We demonstrate the impact of spacer loss on the …

An integrated analysis considering radiative energy transport among each component and
carrier generation in the photovoltaic (PV) material is established for solar …