Three-dimensional self-assembled photonic crystals with high temperature stability for thermal emission modification

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Arpin, Kevin A ^a,b   Losego, Mark D ^c   Cloud, Andrew N ^a   Ning, Hailong ^a,b   Mallek, Justin ^b   Sergeant, Nicholas P ^d   Zhu, Linxiao ^d   Yu, Zongfu ^d   Kalanyan, Berç ^c   Parsons, Gregory N ^c   Girolami, Gregory S ^b   Abelson, John R ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^d   Braun, Paul V ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; TUNGSTEN;

CRYSTAL; EMISSION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; CERAMICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PHOTON; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 84886080798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3630     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Shockley, W. & Queisser, H. J. Detailed balance limit of efficiency of P-N Junction solar cells. J. Appl. Phys. 32, 510-519 (1961).
2. Coutts, T. & Fitzgerald, M. Thermophotovoltaics: the potential for power. Phys. World 11, 49-52 (1998).
3. Spirkl, W. & Ries, H. Solar thermophotovoltaics: an assessment. J. Appl. Phys. 57, 4409-4414 (1985).
4. Harder, N. P. & Wurfel, P. Theoretical limits of thermophotovoltaic solar energy conversion. Semicond. Sci. Technol. 18, S151-S157 (2003).
5. Baldasaro, P. F. et al. Thermodynamic analysis of thermophotovoltaic efficiency and power density tradeoffs. J. Appl. Phys. 89, 3319-3327 (2001). (Pubitemid 33596798)
6. Chubb, D. L. Fundamentals of Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion (Elsevier, 2007).
7. Rephaeli, E. & Fan, S. H. Absorber and emitter for solar thermophotovoltaic systems to achieve efficiency exceeding the Shockley-Queisser limit. Opt. Express 17, 15145-15159 (2009).
8. Swanson, R. M. Proposed thermophotovoltaic solar-energy conversion system. Proc. IEEE 67, 446-447 (1979). (Pubitemid 9134504)
9. Rephaeli, E. & Fan, S. Tungsten black absorber for solar light with wide angular operation range. Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 211107 (2008).
10. Veronis, G., Dutton, R. W. & Fan, S. H. Metallic photonic crystals with strong broadband absorption at optical frequencies over wide angular range. J. Appl. Phys. 97, 093104 (2005).
11. Davies, P. A. & Luque, A. Solar thermophotovoltaics: brief review and a new look. Sol. Energ. Mat. Sol. Cells 33, 11-22 (1994).
12. Lin, S. Y., Moreno, J. & Fleming, J. G. Three-dimensional photonic-crystal emitter for thermal photovoltaic power generation. Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 380-382 (2003).
13. Fleming, J. G., Lin, S. Y., El-Kady, I., Biswas, R. & Ho, K. M. All-metallic threedimensional photonic crystals with a large infrared bandgap. Nature 417, 52-55 (2002). (Pubitemid 34498812)
14. Han, S. E., Stein, A. & Norris, D. J. Tailoring self-assembled metallic photonic crystals for modified thermal emission. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 053906 (2007).
15. Yu, X. D., Lee, Y. J., Furstenberg, R., White, J. O. & Braun, P. V. Filling fraction dependent properties of inverse opal metallic photonic crystals. Adv. Mater. 19, 1689-1692 (2007). (Pubitemid 47153950)
16. Rinnerbauer, V. et al. Recent developments in high-temperature photonic crystals for energy conversion. Energy Environ. Sci. 5, 8815-8823 (2012).
17. Yeng, Y. X. et al. Enabling high-temperature nanophotonics for energy applications. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 109, 2280-2285 (2012).
18. Arpin, K. A. et al. Multidimensional architectures for functional optical devices. Adv. Mater. 22, 1084-1101 (2010).
19. Joannopoulos, J. D., Johnson, S. G., Winn, J. N. & Meade, R. D. Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light 2nd edn (Princeton University Press, 2008).
20. Lopez, C. Materials aspects of photonic crystals. Adv. Mater. 15, 1679-1704 (2003).
21. Wan, J. T. K. & Chan, C. T. Thermal emission by metallic photonic crystal slabs. Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 041915 (2006).
22. Denny, N. R., Li, F., Norris, D. J. & Stein, A. In situ high temperature TEM analysis of sintering in nanostructured tungsten and tungsten-molybdenum alloy photonic crystals. J. Mater. Chem. 20, 1538-1545 (2010).
23. Denny, N. R., Han, S. E., Norris, D. J. & Stein, A. Effects of thermal processes on the structure of monolithic tungsten and tungsten alloy photonic crystals. Chem. Mater. 19, 4563-4569 (2007). (Pubitemid 47441896)
24. Nagpal, P. et al. Fabrication of carbon/refractory metal nanocomposites as thermally stable metallic photonic crystals. J. Mater. Chem. 21, 10836-10843 (2011).
25. von Freymann, G. et al. Tungsten inverse opals: the influence of absorption on the photonic band structure in the visible spectral region. Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 224-226 (2004).
26. Chen, X. et al. Nanostructural effects on optical properties of tungsten inverse opal. Appl. Phys. A 93, 489-493 (2008).
27. Arpin, K. A., Losego, M. D. & Braun, P. V. Electrodeposited 3D tungsten photonic crystals with enhanced thermal stability. Chem. Mater. 23, 4783-4788 (2011).
28. Jeon, S. et al. Fabricating complex three-dimensional nanostructures with high-resolution conformable phase masks. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 101, 12428-12433 (2004). (Pubitemid 39122040)
29. Lei, W. et al. Real-time observation and optimization of tungsten atomic layer deposition process cycle. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 24, 780-789 (2006).
30. Luo, B. & Gladfelter, W. L. in Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metals: W, Al, Cu and Ru in Chemical Vapour Deposition (eds Anthony C. Jones & Michael L. Hitchman) (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009).
31. Elam, J. W., Nelson, C. E., Grubbs, R. K. & George, S. M. Nucleation and growth during tungsten atomic layer deposition on SiO2 surfaces. Thin Solid Films 386, 41-52 (2001). (Pubitemid 32264385)
32. Grubbs, R. K., Nelson, C. E., Steinmetz, N. J. & George, S. M. Nucleation and growth during the atomic layer deposition of W on Al2O3 and Al2O3 on W. Thin Solid Films 467, 16-27 (2004).
33. Grubbs, R. K., Steinmetz, N. J. & George, S. M. Gas phase reaction products during tungsten atomic layer deposition using WF6 and Si2H6. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 22, 1811-1821 (2004).
34. Williams, W. S. Transition metal carbides, nitrides, and borides for electronic applications. JOM 49, 38-42 (1997). (Pubitemid 127572387)
35. Williams, W. S. The thermal conductivity of metallic ceramics. JOM 50, 62-66 (1998). (Pubitemid 128571160)
36. Yang, Y. et al. In situ spectroscopic ellipsometry analyses of hafnium diboride thin films deposited by single-source chemical vapor deposition. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 25, 200-206 (2007). (Pubitemid 46094569)
37. Carney, C. M., Parthasarathy, T. A. & Cinibulk, M. K. Oxidation resistance of hafnium diboride ceramics with additions of silicon carbide and tungsten boride or tungsten carbide. J. Am. Cer. Soc. 94, 2600-2607 (2011).
38. Stober, W., Fink, A. & Bohn, E. Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in micron size range. J. Colloid Interface Sci. 26, 62-69 (1968).
39. Jiang, P., Bertone, J. F., Hwang, K. S. & Colvin, V. L. Single-crystal colloidal multilayers of controlled thickness. Chem. Mater. 11, 2132-2140 (1999). (Pubitemid 129687345)
40. Kalanyan, B., Losego, M. D., Oldham, C. J. & Parsons, G. N. Low temperature atomic layer deposition of tungsten using tungsten hexafluoride and highlydiluted silane in argon. Chem. Vap. Depos. 19, 161-166 (2013).
41. Jayaraman, S., Yang, Y., Kim, D. Y., Girolami, G. S. & Abelson, J. R. Hafnium diboride thin films by chemical vapor deposition from a single source precursor. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 23, 1619-1625 (2005). (Pubitemid 43119399)
42. Yang, Y., Jayaraman, S., Kim, D. Y., Girolami, G. S. & Abelson, J. R. Crystalline texture in hafnium diboride thin films grown by chemical vapor deposition. J. Cryst. Growth 294, 389-395 (2006). (Pubitemid 46399556)
43. Yu, Z. et al. Enhancing far-field thermal emission through thermal extraction. Nat. Commun. 4, 1730 (2013).
44. Miller, E. K. A selective survey of computational electromagnetics. IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 36, 1281-1305 (1988).
45. Taflove, A. & Hagness, S. C. Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House, 2000).
46. Palik, E. D. Handbook of Optical Contstants of Solids (Academic Press, 1985).