Active Radiative Thermal Switching with Graphene Plasmon Resonators

Ilic, Ognjen; Thomas, Nathan H.; Christensen, Thomas; Sherrott, Michelle C.; Soljačić, Marin; Minnich, Austin J.; Miller, Owen D.; Atwater, Harry A.

doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b08231

Title: Active Radiative Thermal Switching with Graphene Plasmon Resonators

Journal Article · Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Nano

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b08231· OSTI ID:1470425

Ilic, Ognjen ^[1]; Thomas, Nathan H. ^[2]; Christensen, Thomas ^[3];

^[1]; Soljačić, Marin ^[3]; Minnich, Austin J. ^[2];

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California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics and Materials Science
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Applied Physics and Energy Sciences Inst.

We theoretically demonstrate a near-field radiative thermal switch based on thermally excited surface plasmons in graphene resonators. The high tunability of graphene enables substantial modulation of near-field radiative heat transfer, which, when combined with the use of resonant structures, overcomes the intrinsically broadband nature of thermal radiation. In canonical geometries, we use nonlinear optimization to show that stacked graphene sheets offer improved heat conductance contrast between “ON” and “OFF” switching states and that a >10× higher modulation is achieved between isolated graphene resonators than for parallel graphene sheets. In all cases, we find that carrier mobility is a crucial parameter for the performance of a radiative thermal switch. Furthermore, we derive shape-agnostic analytical approximations for the resonant heat transfer that provide general scaling laws and allow for direct comparison between different resonator geometries dominated by a single mode. The presented scheme is relevant for active thermal management and energy harvesting as well as probing excited-state dynamics at the nanoscale.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI); Solid- State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1470425

Journal Information:: ACS Nano, Vol. 12, Issue 3; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 1936-0851

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