Boxiang Wang, Mengqi Liu, Tiancheng Huang and Changying Zhao
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
Engineering thermal emission using micro/nanostructures has received growing attention in recent years. A variety of novel coherent, directional, polarized and narrowband thermal light sources as well as wavelength selective emitters have been proposed and investigated. These emitters show a great potential in applications like thermophotovoltaics, solar energy concentration, radiative cooling, thermal detection, sensing, thermal camouflage, thermal rectification, etc. In this article, we give a review on the use of micro/nanostructures to control far-field thermal emission. Thermal emitters based on various micro/nanostructures including gratings, photonic crystals, metamaterials and metasurfaces are reviewed and some important applications are summarized. We expect this article can provide a general overview of this field.
Received: 29 Sep 2019
Revised: 25 Nov 2019
Accepted: 26 Nov 2019
Published online: 27 Nov 2019
Article type:
Review Paper
DOI:
10.30919/esee8c360
Volume:
6
Page:
18-38
Citation:
ES Energy & Environment, 2019, 6, 18-38
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We give an introductory overview of micro/nanostructures to control far-field thermal emission,....
We give an introductory overview of micro/nanostructures to control far-field thermal emission, which are promising in energy and environment applications
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