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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2010
Jae-hwang Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Kai-ming Ho, Ames, IA (US);
Kristen P. Constant, Ames, IA (US);
Jae-Hwang Lee, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Kai-Ming Ho, Ames, IA (US);
Kristen P. Constant, Ames, IA (US);
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., Ames, IA (US);
Abstract
Metallic thermal emitters consisting of two layers of differently structured nickel gratings on a homogeneous nickel layer are fabricated by soft lithography and studied for polarized thermal radiation. A thermal emitter in combination with a sub-wavelength grating shows a high extinction ratio, with a maximum value close to 5, in a wide mid-infrared range from 3.2 to 7.8 μm, as well as high emissivity up to 0.65 at a wavelength of 3.7 μm. All measurements show good agreement with theoretical predictions. Numerical simulations reveal that a high electric field exists within the localized air space surrounded by the gratings and the intensified electric-field is only observed for the polarizations perpendicular to the top sub-wavelength grating. This result suggests how the emissivity of a metal can be selectively enhanced at a certain range of wavelengths for a given polarization.