«This is a record
performance in terms of
thermal stability and a major advance for the
field of thermophotovoltaics,» said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.
NREL uses an integrated suite of solar
field, receiver, and
thermal storage design tools (e.g. SolarPILOT, SolTrace, Aspen, ANSYS Fluent) to maximize the
performance of CST systems.