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7557293 |
Thermophotovoltaic power supply
A microthermophotovoltaic (micro-TPV) system is a novel micro power device. The system fully utilizes the high surface-to-volume ratio of a microcombustor, and is able to deliver and electrical...
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7537955 |
Low temperature nano particle preparation and deposition for phase-controlled compound film formation
The present invention is directed to different methods used in the formation of an ink, as well as being directed to the formation of layers used in the fabrication of a solar cell, particularly...
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7491882 |
Super electromagnet
An electro magnet having a nuclear core that emits radiation and is surrounded by a ceramic phosphor material having a structural defect such that the ceramic material within the ceramic phosphor...
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7491881 |
Method of manufacturing a nuclear-cored battery
A manufacturing process of a nuclear cored battery having steps of processing a nuclear core, and creating a ceramic phosphor slurry material and combining them to form a homogenous mixture. The...
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7488889 |
Layered nuclear-cored battery
A layered battery having a nuclear-cored energy source. The layered battery is created by spraying P and N layers on a plurality of nuclear-cored energy producing spheres that are in the form of a...
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7482533 |
Nuclear-cored battery
A nuclear-cored battery having a spherical core that emits radiation and is surrounded by a ceramic phosphor material having a structural defect such that the ceramic material within the ceramic...
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7456543 |
Closely spaced electrodes with a uniform gap
An improved design for maintaining separation between electrodes in tunneling, diode, thermionic, and other devices is disclosed. At least one electrode is made from flexible material. A magnetic...
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7446451 |
Systems and methods for converting heat to electrical power
An apparatus includes a thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) material that is capable of generating electrical power from low temperature heat radiation. An electric field generator is coupled to apply an...
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7390962 |
Micron gap thermal photovoltaic device and method of making the same
A method of making a micron gap thermal photovoltaic device wherein at least one standoff is formed on a photovoltaic substrate, a sacrificial layer is deposited on the photovoltaic substrate and...
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7371962 |
Diode energy converter for chemical kinetic electron energy transfer
An improved diode energy converter for chemical kinetic electron energy transfer is formed using nanostructures and includes identifiable regions associated with chemical reactions isolated...
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7326850 |
Method and devices for generating energy from photovoltaics and temperature differentials
A method for generating power is provided. The method including: providing a heat source with an output of radiation in a predetermined spectrum; generating a first portion of the power from the...
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7231128 |
Hybrid solar lighting systems and components
A hybrid solar lighting system and components having at least one hybrid solar concentrator, at least one fiber receiver, at least one hybrid luminaire, and a light distribution system operably...
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7223914 |
Pulsed electron jump generator
A device and method for stimulating pulsed chemical reactions in a small volume of gaseous reactants. An emitter stimulates the reactions of a fuel oxidizer mixture and a collector converts the...
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7196263 |
TPV cylindrical generator for home cogeneration using low NOx radiant tube burner
A cylindrical TPV generator uses low bandgap PV cells mounted on circuits in a polygonal array around an IR emitter. A low NOx radiant tube burner enables operation at low NOx. The combustion gases...
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7173179 |
Solar co-generator
A solar co-generator for producing both heat energy and electricity is disclosed. A solar concentrator directs sunlight into a container lined with solar cells and filled with a thermal transfer...
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7166797 |
Tandem filters using frequency selective surfaces for enhanced conversion efficiency in a thermophotovoltaic energy conversion system
This invention relates to the field of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) direct energy conversion. In particular, TPV systems use filters to minimize parasitic absorption of below bandgap energy. This...
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7122735 |
Quantum well energizing method and apparatus
A method and apparatus that converts energy provided by a chemical reaction into energy for charging a quantum well device. The disclosed apparatus comprises a catalyst layer that catalyzes a...
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7119272 |
Gas specie electron-jump chemical energy converter
An apparatus and method for extracting energy is provided. In one aspect the method includes using chemical reactions to generate vibrationally excited molecules, such as...
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7060891 |
Thermophotovoltaic generator apparatus
A thermophotovoltaic generator apparatus has: a burner that is supplied with a fuel and an air, and burns the fuel; an emitter heated by combustion heat produced by the burner; a photoelectric...
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7053293 |
GaAs substrate with Sb buffering for high in devices
GaAs substrates with compositionally graded buffer layers for matching lattice constants with high-Indium semiconductor materials such as quantum well infrared photoconductor devices and thermo...
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7045703 |
Thermophotovoltaic power generating apparatus
A thermophotovoltaic power generating apparatus has a combustor for burning a fuel upon supply of the fuel and air, an emitter heated by passage therein of combustion gas produced in the combustor,...
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6888059 |
Photothermal power generation device and method
A photothermal power generation device designed to heat an emitter receives a supply of fuel and air, burns the fuel to produce combustion gas, and converts light emitted from the emitter into...
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6831221 |
System and method for power generation
A method for powering a vehicle comprises, in one embodiment, receiving infrared radiation emitted as heat from a roadway surface, and converting energy of the infrared radiation to a form of...
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6812499 |
Silicon-based film and photovoltaic element
A silicon based film is provided which comprises a crystal phase formed on a substrate with a surface shape represented by a function f, wherein the silicon-based film is formed on a substrate with...
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6768049 |
Thermophotovoltaic electric power generating apparatus and power generating method thereof
A thermophotovoltaic power generating apparatus that heats an emitter by a combustion gas produced by fuel and air, and converts light radiated from the emitter into electric power by using...
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6753469 |
Very high efficiency, miniaturized, long-lived alpha particle power source using diamond devices for extreme space environments
A power source converts α-particle energy into electricity by coulomb collision in doped diamond films. Alpha particle decay from curium-244 creates electron-hole pairs by freeing electrons and...
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6713668 |
Solar energy converter and solar energy conversion system
A solar energy converter includes: a light-concentrating instrument; an electron emitter in an insulated vacuum vessel, emitting electrons in a vacuum as a temperature rises by sunlight; an...
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6700056 |
Pre-equilibrium chemical reaction energy converter
The use of newly discovered chemical reaction products, created when reactants combine to form products on the surface of a catalyst, to generate electricity, beams of radiation or mechanical...
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6686534 |
Small-scaled portable electrical power generator
The present invention provides a small-scaled portable electrical power generator comprising a base, which includes an assembly surface, a fuel chamber, and at least one fuel delivery channels...
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6683243 |
Selective emission multilayer coatings for a molybdenum thermophotovoltaic radiator
Multilayer coating designs have been developed to provide selective emission for a molybdenum thermophotovoltaic (TPV) radiator surface. These coatings increase the surface emissivity of a...
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6653547 |
Solar energy converter
The solar energy converter comprises an electron emitter and an electron collector. They are provided separate from each other in a vacuum vessel. Solar energy in a wide range of sunlight spectrum...
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6649823 |
Gas specie electron-jump chemical energy converter
An apparatus and method for extracting energy is provided. In one aspect the method includes using chemical reactions to generate vibrationally excited molecules, such as...
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6620998 |
Recycling heat from industrial processes to generate electricity using a thermophotovoltaic generator
The invention teaches a method and apparatus for the generation of electric power by recycling the heat generated by various industrial processes. Thermophotovoltaic cells are used to convert the...
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6603069 |
Adaptive, full-spectrum solar energy system
An adaptive full spectrum solar energy system having at least one hybrid solar concentrator, at least one hybrid luminaire, at least one hybrid photobioreactor, and a light distribution system...
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6583350 |
Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion using photonic bandgap selective emitters
A method for thermophotovoltaic generation of electricity comprises heating a metallic photonic crystal to provide selective emission of radiation that is matched to the peak spectral response of a...
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6538193 |
Thermophotovoltaic generator in high temperature industrial process
An emitter for use with a generator has a tube closed at one end, heated from its outside with a water-cooled photovoltaic converter array mounted inside for glass-melting application. Several TPV...
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6486392 |
Hydrocarbon fired thermophotovoltaic electric generator insert having low bandgap cells for use as a replacement burner in an appliance retrofit
A hydrocarbon thermophotovoltaic (TPV)electric generator insert has applications as a replacement burner to retrofit existing appliances. The retrofitted appliance is thus upgraded to either a...
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6479743 |
Photon power cell
A photon power cell has at least one photo-electric cell ( 10 ), one or more layers of filter glass ( 15 ) and a radioactive-energised fluorescent material ( 20 ) which produces photons that are...
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6423896 |
Thermophotovoltaic insulation for a solid oxide fuel cell system
A fuel cell system is disclosed. The fuel cell system comprises a thermophotovoltaic insulation disposed around at least a portion of a fuel cell. Methods for operating the fuel cell system are...
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6379789 |
Thermally-sprayed composite selective emitter
A composite emitter ( 100 ) for a thermophotovoltaic cell and other applications, and a method of forming the composite emitter. The composite emitter includes a substrate ( 102 ) and a selective...
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6372979 |
Apparatus and method for converting artificially generated radiant energy to electrical energy
An apparatus is provided for generating electrical energy. The apparatus consists of a housing; particularly, a housing having a spherical surface; a natural gas light for generating radiation...
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6337437 |
Electric power generating lantern using forced air cooled low bandgap photovoltaic cells
A compact forced air cooled thermophotovoltaic generator includes a TPV converter assembly, a fan which is driven by electric power generated by the converter assembly and a housing for enclosing...
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6326541 |
Solar/thermal radiation cell device
A solar/thermal radiation cell device comprising at least two parallel metal or semiconductor plates of equal or unequal dimensions separated by an air or an insulated gap and based on an insulator...
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6303853 |
Shingle circuits for thermophotovoltaic systems
A shingle circuit array and a method of assembling the shingle circuit is provided. The array has a shingle circuit with a substrate, an insulation film layer, a metal layer and TPV cells connected...
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6300557 |
Low-bandgap double-heterostructure InAsP/GaInAs photovoltaic converters
A low-bandgap, double-heterostructure PV device is provided, including in optical alignment a first InP 1 -y As y n-layer formed with an n-type dopant, an Ga x In 1 -x As absorber layer, the...
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6284969 |
Hydrocarbon fired thermophotovoltaic furnace
The present invention is a hydrocarbon fired thermophotovoltaic furnace having a non-fused silica tube. In a preferred embodiment, the furnace has an infrared emitter tube having a top end and a...
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6271461 |
Antireflection coated refractory metal matched emitters for use in thermophotovoltaic generators
Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) electric power generators have emitters with infrared (IR) outputs matched with usable wavelengths for converter cells. The emitters have durable substrates, optional...
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6235983 |
Hybrid power assembly
A hybrid power assembly includes a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power conversion module for converting radiant thermal energy into electrical power, and a battery in electrical communication with the...
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6232546 |
Microcavity apparatus and systems for maintaining a microcavity over a macroscale area
A microcavity apparatus and systems for maintaining microcavity spacing over a macroscopic area. An application of this invention is a microscale generator. This microscale generator includes a...
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6232545 |
Linear circuit designs for solar photovoltaic concentrator and thermophotovoltaic applications using cell and substrate materials with matched coefficients of thermal expansion
A shingle circuit array and a method of assembling the shingle circuit is provided. The array has a shingle circuit with a substrate, an insulation film layer, a metal layer and TPV cells connected...
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