Introductory Remarks

Seebeck nanoantennas for solar energy harvesting

“…The modeling of the device was performed by using COMSOL Multi-Physics ver3.5a (based on the finiteelement method) commercial package that provides a good multi-physics platform where both the electromagnetic and the thermal domains are fully integrated [27]. The numerical model was built by using the reported optical and thermal properties of the materials, as an input into the solver, in the wavelength rage of interest (from 3 µm to 50 µm) [25,28].…”

“…Even thought the used density flux is too high for (solar) harvesting applications, these results can be exploited to obtain the optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency of the device for every single frequency, expecting the efficiency to be independent from the intensity of the source. [25,28].…”