One of the keys towards high efficiency thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems lies in spectral control. Here, we present detailed performance predictions of realistic TPV systems incorporating experimentally demonstrated advanced spectral control components. Compared to the blackbody emitter, the optimized two-dimensional (2D) tantalum (Ta) photonic crystal (PhC) selective emitter ...

The United States of America has adopted the SHA-1 hash algorithm described herein as a Federal Information Processing Standard. The purpose of this document is to make it conveniently available to the Internet community. Most of the text herein was taken by the authors from FIPS 180-1. Only the C code implementation is "original" and that is patterned after the MD2/MD4/MD5 RFCs. D. Eastlake 3r...