THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION AND COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF CONVERSION OF THE FAR-FIELD REGIME AND NEAR-FIELD REGIME

TPV conversion is nowadays a serious candidate for the conversion of radiated heat into electricity. It is not a substitute for PV, on the contrary it allows to extend the conversion into electricity of the electromagnetic spectrum. This work is a review of the TPV sector on the one hand but also a comparative study of the two regimes of the TPV industry. This study allows us to know that near field offers the best conversion efficiency limits.