Spectrally and Spatially Selective Emitters Using Polymer Hybrid Spoof Plasmonics

Optimized thermal emitters using optical resonances have been attracting increased attention for diverse applications, such as infrared (IR) sensing, thermal imaging, gas sensing, thermophotovoltaics, thermal camouflage, and radiative cooling. Depending on the applications, the recently developed IR...

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Published in:ACS applied materials & interfaces 2020-11, Vol.12 (47), p.53206-53214
Main Authors: Lee, Gil Ju, Kim, Do Hyeon, Heo, Se-Yeon, Song, Young Min
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Language:English
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Applications of Polymer, Composite, and Coating Materials
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Summary:Optimized thermal emitters using optical resonances have been attracting increased attention for diverse applications, such as infrared (IR) sensing, thermal imaging, gas sensing, thermophotovoltaics, thermal camouflage, and radiative cooling. Depending on the applications, the recently developed IR devices have been tailored to achieve not only spectrally engineered emission but also spatially resolved emission using various nanometallic structures, metamaterials, and multistacking layers, which accompany high structural complexity and prohibitive production cost. Herein, this article presents a simple and affordable approach to obtain spatially and spectrally selective hybrid thermal emitters (HTEs) based on spoof surface plasmons of microscaled Ag grooves manifested in encapsulation polymer layers. Theoretical analyses found that the polymer hybrid plasmonics allows diverse emission tuning within the long-wave IR (LWIR; 8–14 μm) region as follows: (1) spatially selective emission peaks only exist in the interface of Ag grooves and IR-transparent layers and (2) near-unity spectrally selective emission is obtained by refining inherent emissivity of a thin IR-opaque layer. Also, parametric studies computationally optimized the structural parameters for spatially and spectrally selective HTEs. Using the optimized parameters, the authors fabricated two HTEs and demonstrated the intriguing emission features in terms of infrared data encoding/decoding and radiative cooling, respectively. These successful demonstrations open up the applicability of HTEs for tailoring IR emission in a spatially and spectrally selective manner.
ISSN:1944-8244
1944-8252
DOI:10.1021/acsami.0c13177