Reconfigurable room temperature metamaterial infrared emitter
Abstract
The marriage of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems with metamaterials offers a viable route to achieving reconfigurable devices, which control the emission of energy. Here we propose and demonstrate the idea of a metamaterial microelectromechanical system (MEMS) capable of tailoring the energy emitted from a surface, without changing the temperature, but, instead, only altering the spectral emissivity. Our metamaterial achieves a range of emissivities equivalent to a nearly 20°C temperature change when viewed with a thermal infrared camera. We tessellate a surface with individually reconfigurable MEMS metamaterial pixels, thus realizing a spatiotemporal emitter capable of displaying thermal infrared patterns up to 110 kHz. Furthermore, our results may be scaled to nearly any sub-optical range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and validate the potential of MEMS metamaterials to operate as reconfigurable multifunctional devices with unprecedented energy control capabilities.
- Authors:
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- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Dept .of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1474139
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0014372
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optica
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2334-2536
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; metamaterials; optical microelectromechanical devices; infrared imaging; temperature; thermal emission
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Liu, Xinyu, and Padilla, Willie J. Reconfigurable room temperature metamaterial infrared emitter. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1364/OPTICA.4.000430.
Liu, Xinyu, & Padilla, Willie J. Reconfigurable room temperature metamaterial infrared emitter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.4.000430
Liu, Xinyu, and Padilla, Willie J. Thu .
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@article{osti_1474139,
title = {Reconfigurable room temperature metamaterial infrared emitter},
author = {Liu, Xinyu and Padilla, Willie J.},
abstractNote = {The marriage of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems with metamaterials offers a viable route to achieving reconfigurable devices, which control the emission of energy. Here we propose and demonstrate the idea of a metamaterial microelectromechanical system (MEMS) capable of tailoring the energy emitted from a surface, without changing the temperature, but, instead, only altering the spectral emissivity. Our metamaterial achieves a range of emissivities equivalent to a nearly 20°C temperature change when viewed with a thermal infrared camera. We tessellate a surface with individually reconfigurable MEMS metamaterial pixels, thus realizing a spatiotemporal emitter capable of displaying thermal infrared patterns up to 110 kHz. Furthermore, our results may be scaled to nearly any sub-optical range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and validate the potential of MEMS metamaterials to operate as reconfigurable multifunctional devices with unprecedented energy control capabilities.},
doi = {10.1364/OPTICA.4.000430},
journal = {Optica},
number = 4,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {4}
}
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Fig. 1: (a) Schematic of the MME in both emissive off (left) and on (right) states. (b) SEM images of the MME at a tilt angle of 45°. (c) Close-up image of the metamaterial. Dimensions are $p$ = 4.6 μm, $l$ = 1.3 μm, and $w$ = 0.6 μm.
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