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.optics2020
Spectrally-Selective Vanadium Dioxide Based Tunable Metafilm Emitter for Dynamic Radiative Cooling
Sydney Taylor, Ryan McBurney, Linshuang Long +3
Dynamic radiative cooling with variable emissive power is experimentally demonstrated in this study by a wavelength-selective tunable metafilm emitter, which consists of an opaque…
physics.app-ph2019
Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Enhanced by Selective Metafilm Absorber under Multiple Solar Concentrations at High Temperatures
Hassan Alshehri, Qing Ni, Sydney Taylor +3
Concentrating solar power, particularly parabolic trough system with solar concentrations less than 50, requires spectrally selective solar absorbers that are thermally stable at h…