US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Sept. 22 for "Si-based thermophotovoltaic cell with integrated air bridge" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,488, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Si-based thermophotovoltaic cell with integrated air bridge" was invented by Dejiu Fan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Tobias Burger (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Byungjun Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Andrej Lenert (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Stephen R. Forrest (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are presented for fabricating optoelectronic devices with integrated air bridges for improved efficiency. The optoelectronic device includes: a reflector disposed on the substrate; a spacer layer disposed on the reflector; and a thermophotovoltai...