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TiN-based Broadband Wide-angle Solar Absorber

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Solar absorber is the key component to realize efficient utilization of solar energy. In this paper, only titanium nitride (TiN) is used to create a broadband, wide-angle, polarization insensitivity solar absorber. The average absorption of the absorber in the spectral range of 300-2500 nm is 91.3%. The distributions of electric and magnetic fields indicate that the strong absorption is caused by the coupling effect of surface plasmon resonance and guided mode resonance. Investigate the effects of the geometric parameters of the absorber on the spectral absorption performance. Moreover, we also discuss the absorption performance of the solar absorber at different incidence angles. It is demonstrated that even at a large incidence angle of 60°, the average spectral absorption can exceed more than 70%. The proposed solar energy absorber is also insensitive to polarization. The research results in this work could benefit the applications in solar thermophotovoltaic system.

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This work is supported by the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (SJCX23_1576).

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  1. School of Energy, Changzhou University, Changzhou, 213164, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China

    Yongtao Feng, Yuchun Cao & Heng Zhang

  2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jishou University, Jishou, 416000, P. R. China

    Zao Yi

  3. Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology, Jinan, 250100, P. R. China

    Haotuo Liu & Xiaohu Wu

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Yongtao Feng: Investigation, Data curation, Writing – original draft. Yuchun Cao: Resources, Supervision, Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing. Heng Zhang: Software, Investigation, Visualization. Zao Yi: Investigation, Writing – review & editing. Haotuo Liu: Software, Investigation, Writing – review & editing. Xiaohu Wu: Resources, Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing.

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Feng, Y., Cao, Y., Zhang, H. et al. TiN-based Broadband Wide-angle Solar Absorber. Plasmonics 19, 963–972 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-023-02008-3

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