Photonics and thermodynamics concepts in radiative cooling

S Fan, W Li - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Radiative cooling is a ubiquitous passive process that uses photon heat flow to carry away
energy and entropy. Radiative cooling processes have been studied in the scientific …

Scalable multifunctional radiative cooling materials

MC Huang, M Yang, XJ Guo, CH Xue, HD Wang… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) with zero energy consumption and pollution is
regarded as one of the most feasible solutions to replace conventional electrical cooling in …

Direct observation of the violation of Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation

KJ Shayegan, S Biswas, B Zhao, S Fan, HA Atwater - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Thermal emission—the process through which all objects with a finite temperature radiate
electromagnetic energy—has generally been thought to obey reciprocity, where the …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

[HTML][HTML] Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications

D Zhao, A Aili, Y Zhai, S Xu, G Tan, X Yin… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Radiative sky cooling cools an object on the earth by emitting thermal infrared radiation to
the cold universe through the atmospheric window (8–13 μm). It consumes no electricity and …

A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling

L Zhou, H Song, J Liang, M Singer, M Zhou… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Radiative cooling is a passive cooling strategy with zero consumption of electricity that can
be used to radiate heat from buildings to reduce air-conditioning requirements. Although this …

Self-adaptive integration of photothermal and radiative cooling for continuous energy harvesting from the sun and outer space

X Ao, B Li, B Zhao, M Hu, H Ren… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The sun (∼ 6,000 K) and outer space (∼ 3 K) are two significant renewable thermodynamic
resources for human beings on Earth. The solar thermal conversion by photothermal (PT) …

Thermal photonics with broken symmetries

T Liu, C Guo, W Li, S Fan - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

Nonreciprocal infrared absorption via resonant magneto-optical coupling to InAs

KJ Shayegan, B Zhao, Y Kim, S Fan, HA Atwater - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Nonreciprocal elements are a vital building block of electrical and optical systems. In the
infrared regime, there is a particular interest in structures that break reciprocity because their …

Emerging materials and strategies for passive daytime radiative cooling

W Gao, Y Chen - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the growing demands for energy saving and accompanying heat
mitigation concerns, together with the vital goal for carbon neutrality, have drawn human …