3 papers
physics.app-ph2020
Enhancing Solar Thermal Energy Conversion with Silicon-cored Tungsten Nanowire Selective Metamaterial Absorbers
Jui-Yung Chang, Sydney Taylor, Ryan McBurney +4
This work experimentally studies silicon-cored tungsten nanowire selective metamaterial absorber to enhance solar-thermal energy harvesting, simply fabricated by conformally coatin…
physics.app-ph2019
Super-Planckian Radiative Heat Transfer between Macroscale Plates with Vacuum Gaps Down to 190 nm Directly Created by SU-8 Posts and Characterized by Capacitance Method
Xiaoyan Ying, Payam Sabbaghi, Nicole Sluder +1
In this work we experimentally demonstrated the near-field thermal radiation enhancement over the blackbody limit by 11 times between highly doped silicon chips with 1x1 cm2 size a…
physics.app-ph2019
Super-Planckian Radiative Heat Transfer between Metallic Surfaces Due to Near-Field and Thin-Film Effects
Payam Sabbaghi, Linshuang Long, Xiaoyan Ying +4
In this Letter we experimentally demonstrate that the radiative heat transfer between metallic planar surfaces exceeds the blackbody limit by employing the near-field and thin-film…