Far Field coherent thermal emission from a bilayer structure

Jérémie Drevillon (1) , Karl Joulain (1) , Philippe Ben-Abdallah (2) , E. Nefzaoui (1)

1 PPRIME - Institut Pprime
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Naphel

Recent years, there has been an increased interest in the conception of micro/nanostructures with unusual radiative properties, far away from those of blackbody, especially thermal sources with temporal and/or spatial coherent emission. Such structures are indeed extremely interesting for energy conversion systems, radiative cooling devices, etc. The present study numerically investigates temporal coherent emission from a very simple structure composed of one layer of germanium and one of silicon carbide. Our investigation shows that, for well-defined thicknesses, this two-layer structure is able to emit in narrow spectral peak.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Jérémie Drevillon, Karl Joulain, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, E. Nefzaoui. Far Field coherent thermal emission from a bilayer structure. Journal of Applied Physics, 2011, 109 (3), pp.034315. ⟨10.1063/1.3544359⟩. ⟨hal-00649364⟩