Nonreciprocal thermal photonics for energy conversion and radiative heat transfer

Z Zhang, L Zhu - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Controlling emission and absorption, and radiative heat transfer, is important for photonic
energy conversion and thermal management. However, the reciprocal emission and …

Broadband nonreciprocal thermal emission

Z Zhang, L Zhu - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
The reciprocity between thermal emission and absorption in materials that satisfy the
Lorentz reciprocity places a fundamental constraint on photonic energy conversion and …

Evolution and nonreciprocity of loss-induced topological phase singularity pairs

M Liu, C Zhao, Y Zeng, Y Chen, C Zhao, CW Qiu - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Singular behaviors are increasingly being found in structures supporting bound states in the
continuum (BICs), while the nonreciprocity with spectral phase singularity has not been …

The enhancement of nonreciprocal radiation for light near to normal incidence with double-layer grating

J Wu, YM Qing - Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, 2023 - Springer
The recent review stated that the existing designs of nonreciprocal thermal emitters are
typically operated at rather large incident angles, which imposes constraints on the angular …

Nonreciprocal thermal emitter for near perpendicular incident light with cascade grating involving Weyl semimetal

J Wu, YM Qing - Materials Today Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
A nonreciprocal thermal emitter, consisting of a high refractive dielectric grating atop a Weyl
semimetal (WS) grating and a metallic reflector, is proposed and studied. The emitter …

Wide-angle and broadband nonreciprocal thermal emitter with cascaded dielectric and Weyl semimetal grating structure

J Wu, YM Qing - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The recent review [Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 027001 (2022)] has considered that the existing
schemes of nonreciprocal radiation are greatly limited by the narrow-operated bandwidth …

The giant enhancement of nonreciprocal radiation in Thue-morse aperiodic structures

J Wu, Z Wang, B Wu, Z Shi, X Wu - Optics & Laser Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Nonreciprocal radiation has potential applications in the fields of aerospace, energy
conversion, and communications. In this paper, the strong nonreciprocal radiation effect in …

Dual-band nonreciprocal thermal radiation by coupling optical Tamm states in magnetophotonic multilayers

J Wu, F Wu, T Zhao, M Antezza, X Wu - International Journal of Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Kirchhoff's law is one of the most fundamental law in thermal radiation. The violation of
traditional Kirchhoff's law provides possibilities for achieving energy conversion with higher …

Multi-band and wide-angle nonreciprocal thermal radiation

Z Chen, S Yu, B Hu, R Hu - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Violating Kirchhoff's radiation law through magneto-optical materials or spatiotemporal
(Floquet) metamaterials can open a new door for engineering thermal radiation by breaking …

Tunable nonreciprocal thermal emitter based on metal grating and graphene

J Wu, F Wu, T Zhao, X Wu - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Various nonreciprocal thermal emitters, which provide opportunities for higher energy
conversion efficiency, have been proposed to completely violate the traditional Kirchhoff's …