Passive Radiative “Thermostat” Enabled by Phase-Change Photonic Nanostructures

Kort-Kamp, Wilton J. M.; Kramadhati, Shobhita; Azad, Abul Kalam; Reiten, Matthew Thomas; Dalvit, Diego Alejandro Roberto

doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01026

Title: Passive Radiative “Thermostat” Enabled by Phase-Change Photonic Nanostructures

Journal Article · Wed Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01026· OSTI ID:1480047

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

A thermostat senses the temperature of a physical system and switches heating or cooling devices on or off, regulating the flow of heat to maintain the system’s temperature near a desired set point. Taking advantage of recent advances in radiative heat transfer technologies, here we propose a passive radiative “thermostat” based on phase-change photonic nanostructures for thermal regulation at room temperature. By self-adjusting their visible to mid-IR absorptivity and emissivity responses depending on the ambient temperature, the proposed devices use the sky to passively cool or heat during day-time using the phase-change transition temperature as the set point, while at night-time temperature is maintained at or below ambient. We simulate the performance of a passive nanophotonic thermostat design based on vanadium dioxide thin films, showing daytime passive cooling (heating) with respect to ambient in hot (cold) days, maintaining an equilibrium temperature approximately locked within the phase transition region. Furthermore, passive radiative thermostats can potentially enable novel thermal management technologies, for example, to moderate diurnal temperature in regions with extreme annual thermal swings.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1480047

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-18-25694

Journal Information:: ACS Photonics, Vol. 5, Issue 11; ISSN 2330-4022

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Country of Publication:: United States

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