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Associate professor Ned Ekins-Daukes, who is leading the research team, said, “We have made an unambiguous demonstration of electrical power from a thermoradiative diode. Using thermal imaging cameras you can see how much radiation there is at night, but just in the infrared rather than the visible wavelengths. What we have done is make a device that can generate electrical power from the emission of infrared thermal radiation.”