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Thermal emission control via bandgap engineering in aperiodically designed nanophotonic devices

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2015-06
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Aperiodic photonic crystals can open up novel routes for more efficient photon management due to increased degrees of freedom in their design along with the unique properties brought about by the long-range aperiodic order as compared to their periodic counterparts. In this work we first describe the fundamental notions underlying the idea of thermal emission/absorption control on the basis of the systematic use of aperiodic multilayer designs in photonic quasicrystals. Then, we illustrate the potential applications of this approach in order to enhance the performance of daytime radiative coolers and solar thermoelectric energy generators.
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Ā© MDPI The author warmly thanks Luca Dal Negro, Sergey V. Gaponenko, Juan Antonio Monsoriu, and Rue Wen Peng for many useful comments and for sharing different materials of common interest during the last decade. The author thanks Eudenilson L. Albuquerque for kindly providing one of the pictures which illustrate the text. The author is grateful to Victoria HernĆ”ndez for a critical reading of the manuscript.
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