Metamaterials for Manipulation of Thermal Radiation and Photoluminescence in Near and Far Fields

ISBN-13: 9789811961274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Yinhui Kan

Opis

This book provides a series of methods for flexibly and actively manipulating thermal emission and photoluminance by advanced nanostructures—metamaterials. Nanostructures in subwavelength scales can be designed to precisely modulate light-matter interactions and thereby tailoring both thermal radiations and photon emissions. This book explores approaches for designing different kinds of nanostructures, including multilayers, gratings, nanoridges, and waveguides, to improve the flexibility and functionality of micro/nanodevices. With the help of these subwavelength nanostructures, thermal radiation and photoluminescence have been fully manipulated in near and far fields regarding to the intensity, spectrum, polarization, and direction. The proposed methods together with designed metamaterials open new avenues for designing novel micro-/nanodevices or systems for promising applications like thermal energy harvesting, detecting, sensing, and on-chip quantum-optical networks.

Spis treści

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Metamaterials: Light-Matter Interaction at Subwavelength Scales

1.2 Tailoring Thermal Radiative Properties by Metamaterials

1.3 Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Between Nanostructures

1.4 On-Chip Manipulation of Spontaneous Emission

1.5 Research Outline

2. THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS

2.1 Calculation Methods

2.11 Layer structures: transfer matrix method

2.12 Grating structures: rigorous-coupled wave analysis

2.13 NFRHT in three-body systems

2.2 Physical Effects or Phenomena for Designing Nanodevices

2.21 Surface plasmons

2.22 Spontaneous emission near nano antennas

2.23 Spin-orbit interactions of light

2.3 Sample Fabrications

2.4 Experimental Characterization

2.5 Summary

3. DESIGN OF BROADBAND METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS IN VISIBLE AND INFRARED FREQUENCIES

3.1 Active Designing Method for One-Dimensional Periodic Structures

3.2 Near-Perfect Broadband Absorption

3.3 Two-Dimensional Gratings with Anisotropic Materials

3.4 Resonance Absorption by Hyperbolic Polaritons

3.5 Summary

4. ENHANCEMENT AND MODULATION OF NEAR-FIELD THERMAL RADIATION

4.1 Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer in Three-Body Systems with Periodic Structures

4.2 Enhancement of Near-Field Thermal Radiation

4.3 Near Field Radiative Heat Transfer with Graphene/hBN Heterostructures

4.4 Active Modulation of Heat Transfer by A Modulator

4.5 Summary

5. METASURFACES-ENABLED MANIPULATION OF SPONTANEOUS PHOTON EMISSION

5.1 Scattering Light from Quantum Emitters and Nano Bricks Interacting Systems

5.2 Spinning Single Photons

5.3 Directional off-Normal Photon Streaming

5.4 Summary

6. ON-CHIP CONTROL EXCITATIONS OF QUANTUM EMITTERS IN HYBRID NANOCIRCUITS

6.1 Spin-Orbit Coupler in Visible Frequency

6.2 Selective Excitations of Quantum Emitters

6.3 Summary

7. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK

APPENDIX : Characterizations of Hybrid QE-Coupled Metasurfaces

A.1 Measurement of Stokes parameters

A.2 Lifetime measurement

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O autorze

Dr. Yinhui Kan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at University of Southern Denmark (SDU), with a background in nanoscale engineering, photonics, optics, and thermal science. He received his Ph.D., summa cum laude, in 2021 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Kan's research interests include micro-/nano-optics, metasurfaces, quantum photonics, and near-field thermal radiation. More than 10 papers (first authored) have been published on peer-reviewed journals, such as Advanced Materials, ACS Photonics, Advanced Optical Materials, and Physical Review B. One of his works about metasurface-enabled generation of circularly polarized single photons has been reported and highlighted by Nature Review Physics.