Subambient daytime radiative cooling of vertical surfaces

F **e, W **, JR Nolen, H Pan, N Yi, Y An, Z Zhang… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Subambient daytime radiative cooling enables temperatures to passively reach below
ambient temperature, even under direct sunlight, by emitting thermal radiation toward outer …

Multiresonant selective emitter with enhanced thermal management for infrared camouflage

JS Lim, N Lee, T Kim, I Chang, J Nam… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Tailoring the optical properties of metamaterials is crucial for improving the performance of
infrared (IR) applications. Generally, IR camouflage materials are required to have low IR …

Ultra-narrowband and rainbow-free mid-infrared thermal emitters enabled by a flat band design in distorted photonic lattices

K Sun, Y Cai, L Huang, Z Han - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Most reported thermal emitters to date employing photonic nanostructures to achieve narrow
bandwidth feature the rainbow effect due to the steep dispersion of the involved high-Q …

Observation of nonvanishing optical helicity in thermal radiation from symmetry-broken metasurfaces

X Wang, T Sentz, S Bharadwaj, SK Ray, Y Wang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Spinning thermal radiation is a unique phenomenon observed in condensed astronomical
objects, including the Wolf-Rayet star EZ-CMa and the red degenerate star G99-47, due to …

Single-peak and narrow-band mid-infrared thermal emitters driven by mirror-coupled plasmonic quasi-BIC metasurfaces

S Yang, M He, C Hong, J Nordlander, JP Maria… - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Wavelength-selective thermal emitters (WS-EMs) hold considerable appeal due to the
scarcity of cost-effective, narrow-band sources in the mid-to-long-wave infrared spectrum …

Exploiting zone-folding induced quasi-bound modes to achieve highly coherent thermal emissions

K Sun, U Levy, Z Han - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Thermal emissions with high coherence, although not as high as those of lasers, still play a
crucial role in many practical applications. In this work, by exploiting the geometric …

Near-unity nonreciprocal thermal radiation in biaxial van der Waals material-Weyl semimetal heterostructures

Z Gu, Q Zang, G Zheng - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polaritons in natural van der Waals (vdW) materials have drawn significant attention as the
unique optical properties and have opened doors for various potential applications. α-phase …

Fano resonance in a dolomite phase-change multilayer design for dynamically tunable omnidirectional monochromatic thermal emission

ZR Omam, A Ghobadi, B Khalichi, E Ozbay - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this Letter, we unveil the unprecedented optical phonon response of CaMg (CO_3) _2
(dolomite) thin film in the design of a planar ultra-narrowband mid-infrared (MIR) thermal …

Sign manipulation of nonreciprocity in Weyl-semimetal-based thermal emitter

Z Wang, L Qian, G Zheng, X Wu - International Communications in Heat …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonreciprocal radiation can violate Kirchhoff's law and has gained significant attention due
to the great potentials in radiative cooling, infrared sensing, thermal energy harvesting and …

Thermally tunable nonreciprocal radiation in lithography-free vanadium dioxide-dielectric-Weyl semimetal stack

Y Shen, L Qian, M Sun, G Zheng - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonreciprocal thermal radiation (NTR) holds great promise in revolutionizing energy
harvesting and conversion process, has become a hot topic of various research fields …