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thermophotovoltaics

thermophotovoltaics noun: the study of thermophotovoltaic materials.

Noun

thermophotovoltaics (uncountable)

  1. The study of thermophotovoltaic materials.
    • Furthermore, we discuss the potential use of our metasurface absorber design in solar thermophotovoltaics by exploiting refractory plasmonic materials.2015, A. K. Azad, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, M. Sykora, N. R. Weisse-Bernstein, T. S. Luk, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, H.-T. Chen, “Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber”, in arXiv

Origin of thermophotovoltaics

From thermo- + photovoltaics or thermophotovoltaic + -ics.

Questions about thermophotovoltaics

What does thermophotovoltaics mean?
Thermophotovoltaics means the study of thermophotovoltaic materials.
What part of speech is thermophotovoltaics?
Thermophotovoltaics is a noun.

Words near thermophotovoltaics in the dictionary

  1. thermophoretic
  2. thermophoretically
  3. thermophosphate
  4. thermophotometry
  5. thermophotovoltaic
  6. thermophotovoltaics
  7. thermophylactic
  8. thermophylic
  9. thermophysical
  10. thermophysics
  11. thermophysiological

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