Photonic thermal management of coloured objects

Li, Wei; Shi, Yu; Chen, Zhen; Fan, Shanhui

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06535-0

Title: Photonic thermal management of coloured objects

Journal Article · Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06535-0· OSTI ID:1483402

^[1]; Shi, Yu ^[1]; Chen, Zhen ^[2]; Fan, Shanhui ^[1]

Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Ginzton Lab.
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Ginzton Lab.; Southeast Univ., Nanjing (China). School of Mechanical Engineering

The colours of outdoor structures, such as automobiles, buildings and clothing, are typically chosen for functional or aesthetic reasons. With a chosen colour, however, one must control the radiative thermal load for heating or cooling purposes. Here we provide a comprehensive calculation of the tunable range of radiative thermal load for all colours. The range exceeds 680 Wm^–2 for all colours, and can be as high as 866 Wm^–2, resulting from effects of metamerism, infrared solar absorption and radiative cooling. We experimentally demonstrate that two photonic structures with the same pink colour can have their temperatures differ by 47.6 °C under sunlight. These structures are over 20 °C either cooler or hotter than a commercial paint with a comparable colour. Furthermore, the hotter pink structure is 10 °C hotter than a commercial black paint. Here, these results elucidate the fundamental potentials of photonic thermal management for coloured objects.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI); California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1483402

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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