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VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector

VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector
VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector
Optical solar reflector smart radiators are able to control the temperature of spacecraft. This work demonstrates a novel smart optical solar reflector using a patterned thermo-chromic VO2 plasmonic meta-surface design. The VO2 meta-surface combines the temperature induced phase transition of VO2 with plasmonic resonances resulting in a significant enhancement of the infrared absorption. The enhanced absorption obtained at a reduced VO2 coverage results in superior emittance tunability Δε and lower solar absorptance α compared to a corresponding thin-film reflector. An emittance tunability of 0.48 is obtained for the meta-reflector design, representing a 30% improvement compared to the unstructured film. Meta-surface based smart optical solar reflectors offer a new route toward energy-efficient and cost-effective passive thermal control systems of spacecraft and other surfaces.
2330-4022
2280-2286
Sun, Kai
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Bilenberg, Brian
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De Groot, C.H.
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Muskens, Otto L.
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Sun, Kai, Riedel, Christoph A., Urbani, Alessandro, Simeoni, Mirko, Mengali, Sandro, Zalkovskij, Maksim, Bilenberg, Brian, De Groot, C.H. and Muskens, Otto L. (2018) VO2 thermochromic metamaterial-based smart optical solar reflector. ACS Photonics, 5 (6), 2280-2286. (doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00119).

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Optical solar reflector smart radiators are able to control the temperature of spacecraft. This work demonstrates a novel smart optical solar reflector using a patterned thermo-chromic VO2 plasmonic meta-surface design. The VO2 meta-surface combines the temperature induced phase transition of VO2 with plasmonic resonances resulting in a significant enhancement of the infrared absorption. The enhanced absorption obtained at a reduced VO2 coverage results in superior emittance tunability Δε and lower solar absorptance α compared to a corresponding thin-film reflector. An emittance tunability of 0.48 is obtained for the meta-reflector design, representing a 30% improvement compared to the unstructured film. Meta-surface based smart optical solar reflectors offer a new route toward energy-efficient and cost-effective passive thermal control systems of spacecraft and other surfaces.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 January 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 April 2018
Published date: 20 June 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 421617
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/421617
ISSN: 2330-4022
PURE UUID: d8fd0fcf-6b78-4c6e-9850-4a9f87037830
ORCID for Kai Sun: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6807-6253
ORCID for C.H. De Groot: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-7101
ORCID for Otto L. Muskens: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-5504

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Date deposited: 18 Jun 2018 16:30
Last modified: 15 Jun 2024 01:42

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Author: Kai Sun ORCID iD
Author: Christoph A. Riedel
Author: Alessandro Urbani
Author: Mirko Simeoni
Author: Sandro Mengali
Author: Maksim Zalkovskij
Author: Brian Bilenberg
Author: C.H. De Groot ORCID iD
Author: Otto L. Muskens ORCID iD

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