Potential passive cooling methods based on radiation controls in buildings

YH Chan, Y Zhang, T Tennakoon, SC Fu… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Buildings inevitably absorb solar (thermal) radiation through the envelope, ie, window, roof
and wall, whose characteristics, in terms of material, thickness, area etc., affects the …

Colloidal Self‐Assembly Concepts for Plasmonic Metasurfaces

M Mayer, MJ Schnepf, TAF König… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metallic nanostructures exhibit strong interactions with electromagnetic radiation, known as
the localized surface plasmon resonance. In recent years, there is significant interest and …

Highly efficient selective metamaterial absorber for high-temperature solar thermal energy harvesting

H Wang, VP Sivan, A Mitchell, G Rosengarten… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this work, a selective solar absorber made of nanostructured titanium gratings deposited
on an ultrathin MgF 2 spacer and a tungsten ground film is proposed and experimentally …

Switchable wavelength-selective and diffuse metamaterial absorber/emitter with a phase transition spacer layer

H Wang, Y Yang, L Wang - Applied physics letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We numerically demonstrate a switchable metamaterial absorber/emitter by thermally
turning on or off the excitation of magnetic resonance upon the phase transition of vanadium …

Design, fabrication and optical characterizations of large-area lithography-free ultrathin multilayer selective solar coatings with excellent thermal stability in air

H Wang, H Alshehri, H Su, L Wang - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2018 - Elsevier
A sub-micron-thick selective multilayer solar thermal absorber made of tungsten, SiO 2 and
Si 3 N 4 multilayer thin films was theoretically designed and experimentally demonstrated in …

Colloidal metasurfaces displaying near-ideal and tunable light absorbance in the infrared

MJ Rozin, DA Rosen, TJ Dill, AR Tao - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
Metasurfaces are ultrathin, two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength resonators that have
been demonstrated to control the flow of light in ways that are otherwise unattainable with …

Performance analysis of solar thermophotovoltaic conversion enhanced by selective metamaterial absorbers and emitters

H Wang, JY Chang, Y Yang, L Wang - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
By converting broadband sunlight into narrowband thermal radiation matched to the
bandgap of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells, solar thermophotovoltaic (STPV) systems could …

Broadband solar thermal absorber based on optical metamaterials for high‐temperature applications

S Han, JH Shin, PH Jung, H Lee… - Advanced Optical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a tandem grating solar absorber is proposed, which can be easily fabricated on
a wafer scale and is thermally stable up to 800 K. The base of the solar thermal absorber …

Harvesting energy from sun, outer space, and soil

Y Tian, X Liu, F Chen, Y Zheng - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
While solar power systems have offered a wide variety of electricity generation approaches
including photovoltaics, solar thermal power systems, and solar thermoelectric generators …

Optical properties of an Au-SiO2-Au nanocube and its application on solar thermal conversion

Z Chen, X Wu, BJ Lee, M Zhang, C Qin - Solar Energy Materials and Solar …, 2025 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles with different structures have been extensively studied for solar energy
harvesting due to their tunability which can help achieve broadband light absorption. While …