Vanadium dioxide as a natural disordered metamaterial: Perfect thermal emission and large broadband negative differential thermal emittance

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Kats, Mikhail A ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Zhang, Shuyan ^a   Genevet, Patrice ^a   Ko, Changhyun ^a   Ramanathan, Shriram ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL THERMALS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; INFRARED CAMOUFLAGE; INSULATOR METAL TRANSITION; OPTICAL INTERACTIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL EMISSIVITY; THERMOCHROMIC MATERIALS;

CAMOUFLAGE; CHROMOGENICS; METAMATERIALS; SAPPHIRE; VANADIUM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EID: 84893527440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041004     Document Type: Article

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