Enhancing far-field thermal emission with thermal extraction

Zongfu Yu, Nicholas P. Sergeant, Torbjørn Skauli, Gang Zhang (), Hailiang Wang and Shanhui Fan ()
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Zongfu Yu: Stanford University
Nicholas P. Sergeant: Stanford University
Torbjørn Skauli: Stanford University
Gang Zhang: Peking University
Hailiang Wang: Stanford University
Shanhui Fan: Stanford University

Nature Communications, 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The control of thermal radiation is of great current importance for applications such as energy conversions and radiative cooling. Here we show theoretically that the thermal emission of a finite-size blackbody emitter can be enhanced in a thermal extraction scheme, where one places the emitter in optical contact with an extraction device consisting of a transparent object, as long as both the emitter and the extraction device have an internal density of state higher than vacuum, and the extraction device has an area larger than the emitter and moreover has a geometry that enables light extraction. As an experimental demonstration of the thermal extraction scheme, we observe a four-fold enhancement of the far-field thermal emission of a carbon-black emitter having an emissivity of 0.85.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2765

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