Violating Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation in Semitransparent Structures
Abstract
Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation imposes a constraint on photon-based energy harvesting processes since part of the incident energy flux is inevitably emitted back to the source. By breaking the reciprocity of the system, it is possible to overcome this restriction and improve the efficiency of energy harvesting. Here, we design and analyze a semitransparent emitter that fully absorbs normally incident energy from a given direction with zero backward and unity forward emissivity. The nearly ideal performance with wavelength-scale thickness is achieved due to the magneto-optical effect and the guided-mode resonance engineered in the emitter structure. We derive the general requirements for the nonreciprocal emitter using the temporal coupled mode theory and the symmetry considerations. As a result, we provide a realistic emitter design based on a photonic crystal slab consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and silicon.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1814465
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019140
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Photonics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2330-4022
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Kirchhoff’s law; nonreciprocity; energy harvesting; magneto-optical; photonic crystal; coupled mode theory; group theory; chemical structure; insulators; energy; absorption
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Park, Yubin, Asadchy, Viktar S., Zhao, Bo, Guo, Cheng, Wang, Jiahui, and Fan, Shanhui. Violating Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation in Semitransparent Structures. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00612.
Park, Yubin, Asadchy, Viktar S., Zhao, Bo, Guo, Cheng, Wang, Jiahui, & Fan, Shanhui. Violating Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation in Semitransparent Structures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00612
Park, Yubin, Asadchy, Viktar S., Zhao, Bo, Guo, Cheng, Wang, Jiahui, and Fan, Shanhui. Fri .
"Violating Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation in Semitransparent Structures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00612. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1814465.
@article{osti_1814465,
title = {Violating Kirchhoff’s Law of Thermal Radiation in Semitransparent Structures},
author = {Park, Yubin and Asadchy, Viktar S. and Zhao, Bo and Guo, Cheng and Wang, Jiahui and Fan, Shanhui},
abstractNote = {Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation imposes a constraint on photon-based energy harvesting processes since part of the incident energy flux is inevitably emitted back to the source. By breaking the reciprocity of the system, it is possible to overcome this restriction and improve the efficiency of energy harvesting. Here, we design and analyze a semitransparent emitter that fully absorbs normally incident energy from a given direction with zero backward and unity forward emissivity. The nearly ideal performance with wavelength-scale thickness is achieved due to the magneto-optical effect and the guided-mode resonance engineered in the emitter structure. We derive the general requirements for the nonreciprocal emitter using the temporal coupled mode theory and the symmetry considerations. As a result, we provide a realistic emitter design based on a photonic crystal slab consisting of a magnetic Weyl semimetal and silicon.},
doi = {10.1021/acsphotonics.1c00612},
journal = {ACS Photonics},
number = 8,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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