When heat turns into electricity at 1000 °C

New perspectives for producing electricity from industrial waste heat

13-Sep-2023 - Together with the Technical University of Hamburg and Aalborg University, researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon have developed a new selective emitter based on iridium for thermophotovoltaics. Iridium was thus used for the first time as a material for an emitter, and in the experiments, ...