Doctoral Dissertations

Zhigang Li

Keywords and Phrases

Absorber; Electromagnetic; Emitter; Metamaterials; Nanophotonics

Abstract

"Electromagnetic absorbers and emitters have been attracting interest in lots of fields, which are significantly revitalized because of the novel properties brought by the development of the metamaterials, the artificially designed materials. Metamaterials broadens the approaches to design the electromagnetic absorbers and emitters, making it possible to obtain the perfect absorption or emission at the wavelengths covering a wide range. Metamaterial absorbers and emitters are promising for various applications, including solar thermal-photovoltaics and thermal-photovoltaics for energy harvesting, chemical and biomedical sensors, nanoscale imaging and color printing. This work focuses on three aspects (materials, structures and design methods) to improve the experiment realizations of visible and infrared absorbers and emitters. Firstly, this work investigates simple structures based on aluminum and tungsten materials for the metamaterial absorber and emitter, which results in the realization of the all-metal visible color printing with square resonators and wavelength selective mid-infrared absorber (emitter) with cross resonators, respectively. Secondly, we explore the thermal emission properties of the quasi-periodic metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials, which show the ability of engineering emissivity by different lattice structures. Finally, this work demonstrates the use of micro-genetic algorithm to realize efficient design and optimization for broadband metasurface absorbers, as well as wavelength-selective metasurfaces with giant circular dichroism. This work is believed to facilitate the development and application of metamaterial absorbers and emitters"--Abstract, page iv.

Advisor(s)

Gao, Jie

Committee Member(s)

Pan, Heng
Yang, Xiaodong
Chen, Lianyi
Huang, Jie

Department(s)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Sponsor(s)

United States. Office of Naval Research
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Center for Nanoscale Materials
United States. Department of Energy. Office of Basic Energy Sciences

Comments

The authors acknowledge support from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Grant N00014-16-1-2408, the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant 40 DMR-1552871 and CBET-1402743. This work was performed, in part, at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility, and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors acknowledge the facility support from the Materials Research Center at Missouri S&T. The authors thank the support from ISC and MRC centers at Missouri S&T.

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Summer 2019

Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation

  • All-metal structural color printing based on aluminum plasmonic metasurfaces
  • Wavelength-selective mid-infrared metamaterial absorbers with multiple tungsten cross resonators
  • Engineering the thermal emission via quasi-periodic metal-dielectric multilayer stacks
  • Broadband infrared binary-pattern metasurface absorbers with micro genetic algorithm optimization
  • Strong circular dichroism in plasmonic metasurfaces optimized by micro genetic algorithm

Pagination

xiii, 142 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographic references.

Rights

© 2019 Zhigang Li, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Thesis Number

T 11717

Electronic OCLC #

1164805492

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