Emerging materials and strategies for passive daytime radiative cooling

W Gao, Y Chen - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the growing demands for energy saving and accompanying heat
mitigation concerns, together with the vital goal for carbon neutrality, have drawn human …

Recent progress in daytime radiative cooling: Advanced material designs and applications

Q Zhang, S Wang, X Wang, Y Jiang, J Li, W Xu… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) is emerging as a promising cooling technology.
Owing to the high, broadband solar reflectivity and high mid‐infrared emissivity, daytime …

Passive daytime radiative cooling: Fundamentals, material designs, and applications

M Chen, D Pang, X Chen, H Yan, Y Yang - EcoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) dissipates terrestrial heat to the extremely cold
outer space without using any energy input or producing pollution. It has the potential to …

Smart materials for dynamic thermal radiation regulation

H Wei, J Gu, F Ren, L Zhang, G Xu, B Wang, S Song… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal radiation in the mid‐infrared region profoundly affects human lives in various fields,
including thermal management, imaging, sensing, camouflage, and thermography. Due to …

Applications of radiative sky cooling in solar energy systems: Progress, challenges, and prospects

M Hu, B Zhao, X Ao, J Cao, Q Wang, S Riffat… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dynamic energy balance on the earth is jointly governed by solar energy harvesting and
radiative sky cooling. Mainstream solar energy technologies, including photovoltaic …

Dynamically reconfigurable metadevice employing nanostructured phase-change materials

Z Zhu, PG Evans, RF Haglund Jr, JG Valentine - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Mastering dynamic free-space spectral control and modulation in the near-infrared (NIR)
and optical regimes remains a challenging task that is hindered by the available functional …

Actively logical modulation of MEMS-based terahertz metamaterial

R Xu, X Xu, BR Yang, X Gui, Z Qin, YS Lin - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The integration of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) with metamaterial has provided
a novel route to achieve programmability via its reconfigurable capabilities. Here, we …

Metal-insulator-metal-based plasmonic metamaterial absorbers at visible and infrared wavelengths: a review

S Ogawa, M Kimata - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Electromagnetic wave absorbers have been investigated for many years with the aim of
achieving high absorbance and tunability of both the absorption wavelength and the …

A voltage-controllable VO 2 based metamaterial perfect absorber for CO 2 gas sensing application

X Xu, R Xu, YS Lin - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) based metamaterial perfect absorbers (MPAs) have high potential
application values in sensing gas molecules. However, a tuning mechanism via temperature …

[HTML][HTML] Actively MEMS-based tunable metamaterials for advanced and emerging applications

RJ Xu, YS Lin - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, tunable metamaterials have attracted intensive research interest due to their
outstanding characteristics, which are dependent on the geometrical dimensions rather than …