Selective emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications

NA Pfiester, TE Vandervelde - Physica status solidi (a), 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Applying thermophotovoltaic (TPV) technologies to existing energy generators allows us to
increase energy output while utilizing present infrastructure by reclaiming the heat lost …

Nonreciprocal thermal emitter for near perpendicular incident light with cascade grating involving Weyl semimetal

J Wu, YM Qing - Materials Today Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
A nonreciprocal thermal emitter, consisting of a high refractive dielectric grating atop a Weyl
semimetal (WS) grating and a metallic reflector, is proposed and studied. The emitter …

[HTML][HTML] Near-field radiative thermal transport: From theory to experiment

B Song, A Fiorino, E Meyhofer, P Reddy - AIP advances, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Radiative thermal transport via the fluctuating electromagnetic near-field has recently
attracted increasing attention due to its fundamental importance and its impact on a range of …

Wide-angle and broadband nonreciprocal thermal emitter with cascaded dielectric and Weyl semimetal grating structure

J Wu, YM Qing - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The recent review [Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 027001 (2022)] has considered that the existing
schemes of nonreciprocal radiation are greatly limited by the narrow-operated bandwidth …

Tunable nonreciprocal radiation for near vertical incident light based on graphene and Weyl semimetal

J Wu, YM Qing - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
The tunable nonreciprocal radiation for near vertical incident light is investigated. The effect
is realized by placing a cascaded one-dimensional graphene and Weyl semimetal (WS) …

The enhanced nonreciprocal radiation in a grating structure containing a Weyl semimetal film under conical incidence

J Wu, YM Qing - International Communications in Heat and Mass …, 2024 - Elsevier
The enhanced nonreciprocal radiation in grating structure for light under conical incidence is
investigated. The basic structure is composed of a one-dimensional grating on a continuous …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancement of near-infrared absorption in graphene with metal gratings

B Zhao, JM Zhao, ZM Zhang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Graphene has been demonstrated as a good candidate for ultrafast optoelectronic devices.
However, graphene is essentially transparent in the visible and near infrared with an …

Spectral emittance measurements of micro/nanostructures in energy conversion: a review

S Shan, C Chen, PG Loutzenhiser, D Ranjan, Z Zhou… - Frontiers in Energy, 2020 - Springer
Micro/nanostructures play a key role in tuning the radiative properties of materials and have
been applied to high-temperature energy conversion systems for improved performance …

Enhanced Infrared Emission by Thermally Switching the Excitation of Magnetic Polariton with Scalable Microstructured VO2 Metasurfaces

L Long, S Taylor, L Wang - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dynamic radiative cooling attracts fast-increasing interest due to its adaptability to changing
environment and promises for more energy-savings than the static counterpart. Here we …

Strong plasmonic coupling between graphene ribbon array and metal gratings

B Zhao, ZM Zhang - Acs Photonics, 2015 - ACS Publications
The collective oscillation of the massless electrons in graphene ribbons can interact with
photons to create graphene plasmon polaritons. The resonance-induced absorption is …