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The key feature of a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) emitter is the enhancement of thermal emission corresponding to energies just above the bandgap of the absorbing photovoltaic cell and simultaneous suppression of thermal emission below the…

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) photonic media exhibit extreme optical dispersion that enables unconventional light-matter interactions and enhanced optical nonlinearities. Recent studies suggested that thermo-optic effects, traditionally regarded…

Regarded as a promising alternative to spatially shaping matter, time-varying media can be seized to control and manipulate wave phenomena, including thermal radiation. Here, based upon the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics,…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-16 J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano , Iñigo Liberal

We show that under proper conditions thin films structures behave like thermal sources that are able to emit radiation in well defined directions over a broad spectral band for both polarization states of light. This effect results from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Control of thermal emission is important in a number of applications from thermal energy harvesting and management and sensing of gas and chemical to thermal camouflage. Semiconductor-based devices can be engineered to enable electrical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Sid Assawaworrarit , Alex Song , Shanhui Fan

Real-world passive radiative cooling requires highly emissive, selective, and omnidirectional thermal emitters to maintain the radiative cooler at a certain temperature below the ambient temperature while maximizing the net cooling power.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Yinan Zhang , Yinggang Chen , Tong Wang , Qian Zhu , Min Gu

The next generation of ultra-low-noise cryogenic detectors for space science applications require continued exploration of materials characteristics at low temperatures. The low noise and good energy sensitivity of current Transition Edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 D. J. Goldie , D. M. Glowacka , K. Rostem† , S. Withington

We demonstrate a selectively emitting optical Fabry-P\'erot resonator based on a few-nm-thin continuous metallic titanium nitride film, separated by a dielectric spacer from an optically thick titanium nitride back-reflector, which exhibits…

Controlling the emissivity of a thermal emitter has attracted growing interest with a view towards a new generation of thermal emission devices. So far, all demonstrations have involved sustained external electric or thermal consumption to…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-16 Kaikai Du , Qiang Li , Yanbiao Lyu , Jichao Ding , Yue Lu , Zhiyuan Cheng , Min Qiu

We propose a method for engineering thermally excited far field electromagnetic radiation using epsilon-near-zero metamaterials and introduce a new class of artificial media: epsilon-near-pole metamaterials. We also introduce the concept of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sean Molesky , Christopher J. Dewalt , Zubin Jacob

Photoluminescence from metal nanostructures following intense ultrashort illumination is a fundamental aspect of light-matter interactions. Surprisingly, many of its basic characteristics are under ongoing debate. Here, we resolve many of…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Y. Sivan , I. W. Un , I. Kalyan , K. -Q. Lin , J. M. Lupton , S. Bange

The thermal emission of refractory plasmonic metamaterial - a titanium nitride 1D grating - is studied at high operating temperature (540 {\deg}C). By choosing a refractory material, we fabricate thermal gratings with high brightness that…

A portion of the electromagnetic wave spectrum between $\sim 0.1$ and $\sim 10$ terahertz (THz) suffers from the lack of powerful, effective, easy-to-use and inexpensive emitters, detectors and mixers. We propose a multilayer graphene --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Mikhailov

Modern experiments aiming at tests of fundamental physics, like measuring gravitational waves or testing Lorentz Invariance with unprecedented accuracy, require thermal environments that are highly stable over long times. To achieve such a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-29 Josep Sanjuan , Norman Gürlebeck , Claus Braxmaier

We propose multiple approaches for controlling Wien's displacement law in the near-field leading to narrowband, tunable, spatially-coherent high temperature thermal sources. We show that narrowband super-planckian thermal emission relevant…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-25 Yu Guo , S. Molesky , C. Cortes , Zubin Jacob

Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond possess an electronic spin resonance that strongly depends on temperature, which makes them efficient temperature sensor with a sensitivity down to a few mK/$\sqrt{\rm Hz}$. However, the high thermal…

Strongly correlated insulators, such as Mott or charge-transfer insulators, exhibit a strong temperature dependence in their resistivity. Consequently, self-heating effects can lead to electrothermal instabilities in planar thin film…

This paper demonstrates broadband and wide-temperature-range thermal emitter with super-hydrophobicity based on an oxidized high-entropy film. The annealed (NiCuCrFeSi)O high-entropy film can serve as a mid-infrared emitter due to its three…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Ping Song , Cong Wang , Ying Sun , Angelique Bousquet , Eric Tomasella

Thermal emission is naturally spatially incoherent and lacks directionality. Here, we demonstrate that by precisely controlling the spatial temperature distribution within a solid, directional thermal emission can be achieved across a broad…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 Florian Herz , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The radiation hardness of ultrabroadband, spintronic terahertz emitters against gamma and proton irradiation is investigated. We find that irradiation doses equivalent to those experienced by a space instrument en-route to and operated on…