High-Temperature Polaritons in Ceramic Nanotube Antennas.

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2019
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Abstract
High-temperature thermal photonics presents unique challenges for engineers as the database of materials that can withstand extreme environments are limited. In particular, ceramics with high temperature stability that can support coupled light-matter excitations, that is, polaritons, open new avenues for engineering radiative heat transfer. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging ceramic 2D material that possesses low-loss polaritons in two spectrally distinct mid-infrared frequency bands. The hyperbolic nature of these frequency bands leads to a large local density of states (LDOS). In 2D form, these polaritonic states are dark modes, bound to the material. In cylindrical form, boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) create subwavelength particles capable of coupling these dark modes to radiative ones. In this study, we leverage the high-frequency optical phonons present in BNNTs to create strong mid-IR thermal antenna emitters at high temperatures (938 K). Through direct measurement of thermal emission of a disordered system of BNNTs, we confirm their radiative polaritonic modes and show that the antenna behavior can be observed even in a disordered system. These are among the highest-frequency optical phonon polaritons that exist and could be used as high-temperature mid-IR thermal nanoantenna sources.
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Authors Starko-Bowes, Ryan;Wang, Xueji;Xu, Zhujing;Pramanik, Sandipan;Lu, Na;Li, Tongcang;Jacob, Zubin;
Journal Nano letters
Year 2019
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10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03059
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nanoantenna thermal emission boron nitride nanotubes high temperature radiator phonon polaritons thermal photonics

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