Photonics and thermodynamics concepts in radiative cooling

S Fan, W Li - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Radiative cooling is a ubiquitous passive process that uses photon heat flow to carry away
energy and entropy. Radiative cooling processes have been studied in the scientific …

Photonic structures in radiative cooling

M Lee, G Kim, Y Jung, KR Pyun, J Lee… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Radiative cooling is a passive cooling technology without any energy consumption,
compared to conventional cooling technologies that require power sources and dump waste …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Metamaterials and metasurfaces: A review from the perspectives of materials, mechanisms and advanced metadevices

A Ali, A Mitra, B Aïssa - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Throughout human history, the control of light, electricity and heat has evolved to become
the cornerstone of various innovations and developments in electrical and electromagnetic …

Passive radiative cooling below ambient air temperature under direct sunlight

AP Raman, MA Anoma, L Zhu, E Rephaeli, S Fan - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Cooling is a significant end-use of energy globally and a major driver of peak electricity
demand. Air conditioning, for example, accounts for nearly fifteen per cent of the primary …

Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters

DG Baranov, Y Xiao, IA Nechepurenko, A Krasnok… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Thermal emission is a ubiquitous and fundamental process by which all objects at non-zero
temperatures radiate electromagnetic energy. This process is often assumed to be …

Radiative cooling of solar absorbers using a visibly transparent photonic crystal thermal blackbody

L Zhu, AP Raman, S Fan - Proceedings of the national …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
A solar absorber, under the sun, is heated up by sunlight. In many applications, including
solar cells and outdoor structures, the absorption of sunlight is intrinsic for either operational …

Ultrabroadband photonic structures to achieve high-performance daytime radiative cooling

E Rephaeli, A Raman, S Fan - Nano letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
If properly designed, terrestrial structures can passively cool themselves through radiative
emission of heat to outer space. For the first time, we present a metal-dielectric photonic …

Nanophotonic control of thermal radiation for energy applications

W Li, S Fan - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The ability to control thermal radiation is of fundamental importance for a wide range of
applications. Nanophotonic structures, where at least one of the structural features are at a …

Thermal metasurfaces: complete emission control by combining local and nonlocal light-matter interactions

AC Overvig, SA Mann, A Alù - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
Metasurfaces have been enabling the miniaturization and integration of complex optical
functionalities within an ultrathin platform by engineering the scattering features of localized …