Black Diamond For Solar Energy Conversion

For the first time the related solar generator prototype is designed and fabricated by developing advanced materials functionalized for the specific application such as thermally resistant hafnium carbide based radiation absorbers surface textured at the nanoscale to obtain a solar absorptance 90 and chemical vapor deposition diamond.

Black diamond for solar energy conversion.

By alessandro bellucci paolo calvani marco girolami. A new solar power technology has been developed generating energy by harnessing diamonds. Black diamond for solar energy conversion 1. Tecs are commonly used in space vehicles but fox s new electrodes are designed to lower operating temperatures while maintaining a potential energy conversion efficiency of more than 40 per cent.

Abstractblack diamond namely a surface textured diamond film able to absorb efficiently the sunlight is developed by the use of ultrashort pulse laser treatments. The samples used are freestanding 10 10 0 25 mm 3 cvd diamond plates supplied by element six. Samples used in this work are freestanding optical grade og polycrystalline cvd diamond discs. Optimization of black diamond films for solar energy conversion.

Optimization of black diamond films for solar energy conversion 1. Black diamond for solar energy conversion paolo calvani a alessandro bellucci a b marco girolami a stefano orlando c veronica valentini a riccardo polini a d daniele m. Enter the password to open this pdf file. Enter the password to open this pdf file.

Dr fox is developing special electrodes for the converters using nanoparticles of industrial diamond powder which is low cost and readily available. Diamond is a wide bandgap semiconductor characterized by excellent electronic properties e g. Abstract black diamond is obtained by a controlled nanoscale periodic texturing of cvd diamond surface able to drastically modify the interaction with solar radiation from optical transparency up. Trucchi a a.