Reconfigurable room temperature metamaterial infrared emitter

doi:10.1364/OPTICA.4.000430

Title: 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:

Liu, Xinyu ^[1]; Padilla, Willie J. ^[1]

Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Dept .of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Publication Date:: 2017-04-13

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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  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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