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Wavelength-Selective Metamaterial Absorber and Emitter Scholars' Mine Doctoral Dissertations Student Theses and Dissertations Summer 2019 Wavelength-selective metamaterial absorber and emitter Zhigang Li Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations Part of the Optics Commons Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Recommended Citation Li, Zhigang, "Wavelength-selective metamaterial absorber and emitter" (2019). Doctoral Dissertations. 2891. https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/2891 This thesis is brought to you by Scholars' Mine, a service of the Missouri S&T Library and Learning Resources. This work is protected by U. S. Copyright Law. Unauthorized use including reproduction for redistribution requires the permission of the copyright holder. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE METAMATERIAL ABSORBER AND EMITTER by ZHIGANG LI A DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 2019 Approved by: Jie Gao, Advisor Heng Pan Xiaodong Yang Lianyi Chen Jie Huang 2019 Zhigang Li All Rights Reserved iii PUBLICATION DISSERTATION OPTION This dissertation consists of the following three articles that have been published or submitted for publication as follows: Paper I, pages 27-44 have been published in Optics Express. Paper II, pages 45-76 have been published in Optics Express. Paper III, pages 77-101 have been prepared to Optics Express. Paper IV, pages 102-116 have been published in Optics Letter. Paper V, pages 117-135 have been prepared to Optics Express. iv ABSTRACT Electromagnetic absorbers and emitters have been attracting interest in lots of fields, which are significantly revitalized because of the novel properties brought by the development of the metamaterials, the artificially designed materials. Metamaterials broadens the approaches to design the electromagnetic absorbers and emitters, making it possible to obtain the perfect absorption or emission at the wavelengths covering a wide range. Metamaterial absorbers and emitters are promising for various applications, including solar thermal-photovoltaics and thermal-photovoltaics for energy harvesting, chemical and biomedical sensors, nanoscale imaging and color printing. This work focuses on three aspects (materials, structures and design methods) to improve the experiment realizations of visible and infrared absorbers and emitters. Firstly, this work investigates simple structures based on aluminum and tungsten materials for the metamaterial absorber and emitter, which results in the realization of the all-metal visible color printing with square resonators and wavelength selective mid-infrared absorber (emitter) with cross resonators, respectively. Secondly, we explore the thermal emission properties of the quasi-periodic metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials, which show the ability of engineering emissivity by different lattice structures. Finally, this work demonstrates the use of micro-genetic algorithm to realize efficient design and optimization for broadband metasurface absorbers, as well as wavelength-selective metasurfaces with giant circular dichroism. This work is believed to facilitate the development and application of metamaterial absorbers and emitters. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks for the guidance and help from Prof. Jie Gao. Thanks for the guidance and help from Prof. Xiaodong Yang. Thanks for the guidance and help from committee members of my Ph.D. project: Prof. Jie Huang, Porf. Lianyi Chen and Prof. Heng Pan. Thanks for the help from the students and colleagues who have ever worked and been working in the lab, especially Lei Sun, Huixu Deng, Wei Wang. Thanks for the help from the Professors, staffs and advisors working on campus. Thanks for the funding organizations and departments. Thanks for the support from my family members. Thanks for the support from my wife. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PUBLICATION DISSERTATION OPTION ................................................................... iii ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................................................v LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ...............................................................................................x LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................... xiii SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1 1.1. DESIGN OF NARROWBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORBER ........... 3 1.2. DESIGN OF BROADBAND ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORBER ............. 11 1.3. APPLICATIONS .............................................................................................. 20 1.4. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ............................................................................... 24 PAPER I. ALL-METAL STRUCTURAL COLOR PRINTING BASED ON ALUMINUM PLASMONIC METASURFACES .......................................................................... 27 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................. 27 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 27 2. DEVICE DESIGN AND FABRICATION .............................................................. 30 3. RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION ................................................................................ 31 4. INCIDENT ANGLE DEPENDENCE OF OPTICAL RESPONSE ........................ 38 5. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................ 39 vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................... 39 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 40 II. WAVELENGTH-SELECTIVE MID-INFRARED METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS WITH MULTIPLE TUNGSTEN CROSS RESONATORS........... 45 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................. 45 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 46 2. DESIGN AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MID-INFRARED ABSORBERS .... 48 3. OPTICAL MODE ANALYSIS AND EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL ........... 54 4. THERMAL ANALYSIS FOR ABSORBERS AND ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY FOR EMITTERS .............................................................................. 61 5. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................ 69 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................... 70 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 70 III. ENGINEERING THE THERMAL EMISSION VIA QUASI-PERIODIC METAL-DIELECTRIC MULTILAYER STACKS .............................................. 77 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................. 77 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................... 78 2. METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL PRODUCERS ............................................. 80 3. COMPARISON OF ABSORPTIVITY AND EMISSIVITY IN THE DESIGNED METAMATERIALS ........................................................................... 82 4. DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP AND MODE ANALYSIS .................................. 88 5. POLARIZATION AND ANGLE DEPENDENCE OF OPTICAL RESPONSE .... 93 6. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................ 95 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................... 96 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 96 viii IV. BROADBAND INFRARED BINARY-PATTERN METASURFACE ABSORBERS WITH MICRO GENETIC ALGORITHM OPTIMIZATION .... 102 ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................... 102 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 102 2. FORMULATION OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN WITH MICRO GENETIC ALGORITHM ........................................................................................................ 104 3. DESIGNED METAMATERIALS TOWARD BROADBAND ABSORBER ...... 105 4. PERFORMANCE PERTURBATION FROM MINOR STRUCTURAL MODIFICATION ................................................................................................... 108 5. ALTERNATIVE DESIGN OF THE BROADBAND ABSORBER ..................... 111 6. CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................... 114 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ....................................................................................... 114 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................... 115 V. STRONG CIRCULAR DICHROISM
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