Progress in passive daytime radiative cooling: A review from optical mechanism, performance test, and application

Y Dong, X Zhang, L Chen, W Meng, C Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
By exploiting the 3 K coldness of outer space as heat sink of terrestrial thermal radiation,
passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) can achieve sub-ambient temperatures without …

Emerging materials and engineering strategies for performance advance of radiative sky cooling technology

J Liu, Y Zhang, S Li, C Valenzuela, S Shi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the growing global warming and climate change, the demand for clean cooling
technologies has witnessed a sharp increase. Radiative sky cooling (RSC) can dissipate …

Radiative sky cooling thermal concentration with cooling power exceeding one kW per square meter

P Poredoš, H Shan, C Wang, Z Chen, Z Shao… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The world's first demonstration of passive radiative cooling under the sun in 2014 attracted
substantial attention due to its ubiquitous and passive nature. Numerous nanophotonic and …

Flexible structural polyethylene films for dynamically tunable energy harvesting from the sun and outer space

Q Chen, Y Lu, J Zhang, D Li, T Huang, C Lou, M Zhao… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) achieves a sub-ambient temperature without any
electricity input, which is of great significance for global energy savings and minimum …

Majorization theory for unitary control of optical absorption and emission

C Guo, S Fan - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Unitary control changes the absorption and emission of an object by transforming the
external light modes. It is widely used and underlies coherent perfect absorption. Yet two …

[HTML][HTML] Strong multi-band nonreciprocal radiation with Fibonacci multilayer involving Weyl semimetal

J Wu, YM Qing - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The strong multi-band nonreciprocal radiation with Fibonacci multilayer is studied. It consists
of a Weyl semimetal planar and a dielectric layer on a Fibonacci multilayer and a metal …

Characterization and performance enhancement of radiative cooling on circular surfaces

M Sheng, H Pan, D Xu, D Zhao - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The performance of radiative cooling depends on the view factor between the cooling
surface and the sky. To maximize cooling power, horizontal radiative cooling surfaces are …

Dynamical Janus‐Like Behavior Excited by Passive Cold‐Heat Modulation in the Earth‐Sun/Universe System: Opportunities and Challenges

Z Li, JH Zhang, J Li, S Wang, L Zhang, CY He, P Lin… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The utilization of solar‐thermal energy and universal cold energy has led to many innovative
designs that achieve effective temperature regulation in different application scenarios …

Enhancing nonreciprocal thermal radiation in Weyl semimetals based on optical Tamm states by integrating with photonic crystals

J Wu, Y Sun, F Wu, B Wu, X Wu - Waves in Random and Complex …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Weyl semimetals (WSs) have shown great potential in realizing nonreciprocal thermal
radiation. In this work, we demonstrate that the nonreciprocal thermal radiation can be …

[HTML][HTML] Directional thermal emission and display using pixelated non-imaging micro-optics

Z Fan, T Hwang, S Lin, Y Chen, ZJ Wong - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Thermal radiation is intrinsically broadband, incoherent and non-directional. The ability to
beam thermal energy preferentially in one direction is not only of fundamental importance …