Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber
Abstract
We demonstrate a broadband, polarization independent, wide-angle absorber based on a metallic metasurface architecture, which accomplishes greater than 90% absorptance in the visible and near-infrared range of the solar spectrum, and exhibits low absorptivity (emissivity) at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths. The complex unit cell of the metasurface solar absorber consists of eight pairs of gold nano-resonators that are separated from a gold ground plane by a thin silicon dioxide spacer. Our experimental measurements reveal high-performance absorption over a wide range of incidence angles for both s- and p-polarizations. We also investigate numerically the frequency-dependent field and current distributions to elucidate how the absorption occurs within the metasurface structure.
- Authors:
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1258002
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1339274; OSTI ID: 1339275
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-15-24569; SAND-2017-0018J; SAND-2017-0019J
Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322; srep20347
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Metamaterials
Citation Formats
Azad, Abul K., Kort-Kamp, Wilton J. M., Sykora, Milan, Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R., Luk, Ting S., Taylor, Antoinette J., Dalvit, Diego A. R., and Chen, Hou-Tong. Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep20347.
Azad, Abul K., Kort-Kamp, Wilton J. M., Sykora, Milan, Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R., Luk, Ting S., Taylor, Antoinette J., Dalvit, Diego A. R., & Chen, Hou-Tong. Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20347
Azad, Abul K., Kort-Kamp, Wilton J. M., Sykora, Milan, Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R., Luk, Ting S., Taylor, Antoinette J., Dalvit, Diego A. R., and Chen, Hou-Tong. Mon .
"Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20347. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1258002.
@article{osti_1258002,
title = {Metasurface Broadband Solar Absorber},
author = {Azad, Abul K. and Kort-Kamp, Wilton J. M. and Sykora, Milan and Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R. and Luk, Ting S. and Taylor, Antoinette J. and Dalvit, Diego A. R. and Chen, Hou-Tong},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate a broadband, polarization independent, wide-angle absorber based on a metallic metasurface architecture, which accomplishes greater than 90% absorptance in the visible and near-infrared range of the solar spectrum, and exhibits low absorptivity (emissivity) at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths. The complex unit cell of the metasurface solar absorber consists of eight pairs of gold nano-resonators that are separated from a gold ground plane by a thin silicon dioxide spacer. Our experimental measurements reveal high-performance absorption over a wide range of incidence angles for both s- and p-polarizations. We also investigate numerically the frequency-dependent field and current distributions to elucidate how the absorption occurs within the metasurface structure.},
doi = {10.1038/srep20347},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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