Tunneling-enabled spectrally selective thermal emitter based on flat metallic films

Wang, Zhu; Luk, Ting S.; Tan, Yixuan; Ji, Dengxin; Zhou, Ming; Gan, Qiaoqiang; Yu, Zongfu

doi:10.1063/1.4914886

Tunneling-enabled spectrally selective thermal emitter based on flat metallic films

Journal Article · Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4914886· OSTI ID:1235259

Wang, Zhu ^[1]; Luk, Ting S. ^[2]; Tan, Yixuan ^[1]; Ji, Dengxin ^[3]; Zhou, Ming ^[1]; Gan, Qiaoqiang ^[3]; Yu, Zongfu ^[1]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States). Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)
New York State Univ. of Buffalo, NY (United States)

Infrared thermal emission from metals has important energy applications in thermophotovoltaics, radiative cooling, and lighting. The emissivity of flat metal films is close to zero because the screening effect prevents metals' fluctuating currents from emitting to the far field. As a result, metal films are often used as reflecting mirrors instead of thermal emitters. Recently, nanostructured metals, such as metamaterials, have emerged as an interesting way to enhance and to spectrally control thermal emission based on plasmonic resonant effects. However, they require sophisticated lithography. Here, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated a completely different mechanism to achieve spectrally selective metallic emitters based on atunneling effect. Furthermore, this effect allows a simple flat metal film to achieve a near-unity emissivity with controlled spectral selectivity for efficient heat-to-light energy conversion.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1235259

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22395690

Report Number(s):: SAND2015--2054J; 569638

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 106; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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