Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Inverse design in nanophotonics

S Molesky, Z Lin, AY Piggott, W **, J Vucković… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

Thermal photonics with broken symmetries

T Liu, C Guo, W Li, S Fan - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling

PC Hsu, C Liu, AY Song, Z Zhang, Y Peng, J **e… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Maintaining human body temperature is one of the most basic needs for living, which often
consumes a huge amount of energy to keep the ambient temperature constant. To expand …

Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters

DG Baranov, Y **ao, IA Nechepurenko, A Krasnok… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Thermal emission is a ubiquitous and fundamental process by which all objects at non-zero
temperatures radiate electromagnetic energy. This process is often assumed to be …

Thermal camouflage based on the phase-changing material GST

Y Qu, Q Li, L Cai, M Pan, P Ghosh, K Du… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Camouflage technology has attracted growing interest for many thermal applications.
Previous experimental demonstrations of thermal camouflage technology have not …

Daytime radiative cooling using near-black infrared emitters

J Kou, Z Jurado, Z Chen, S Fan, AJ Minnich - Acs Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent works have demonstrated that daytime radiative cooling under direct sunlight can be
achieved using multilayer thin films designed to emit in the infrared atmospheric …

Multi-band middle-infrared-compatible camouflage with thermal management via simple photonic structures

M Pan, Y Huang, Q Li, H Luo, H Zhu, S Kaur, M Qiu - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Perpetual advancements in modern detection technologies have augmented the need of
multi-band (such as laser radar, visual) middle-infrared (MIR) compatible camouflage; …

Nanophotonic control of thermal radiation for energy applications

W Li, S Fan - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The ability to control thermal radiation is of fundamental importance for a wide range of
applications. Nanophotonic structures, where at least one of the structural features are at a …