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Broadband enhancement of thermal radiation
Abstract:
Broadband thermal radiation sources are critical for various applications including spectroscopy and electricity generation. However, due to the difficulty in simultaneously achieving high absorptivity and low thermal mass these sources are inefficient. We show a platform that enables one to obtain enhanced emission by coupling a thermal emitter to an optical cavity. We experimentally demonstrate broadband enhancement of thermal emission between λ ~2 ̶ 4.2 μm using an inherently poor thermal emitter consisting of tens of nanometers thick SiC film with 10% emissivity (εSiC ~0.1). We measure over twofold enhancement of total emission power over the entire spectral band and threefold enhancement of thermal emission over 3 to 3.4 μm. Our platform has the potential to enable development of ideal blackbody sources operating at substantially lower heating powers.
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