Electrically driven nanoantenna metasurface for coherent thermal emission

Abstract

Nanoantennas and their arrays (metasurfaces) provide a versatile platform for controlling the coherence of thermal emission. Conventional designs rely on global heating, which impedes emission efficiency and on-chip integration. In this work, we propose an electrically driven metasurface composed of a Yagi-Uda nanoantenna array interconnected by S-shaped electrode wires, which enables the concurrent manipulation of thermal emission spectrally and directionally. A direct simulation approach based on the Wiener-chaos expansion method is employed for quantitative analysis. Our metasurface device exhibits a narrowband emission with high directivity, which is one order higher than that of a single nanorod antenna case. The modeling framework established in this work opens a promising route for realizing coherent mid-infrared emission by metasurfaces.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 16, 2023
Source ID
10.1063/5.0165104

Entities

People

  • Hakan Salihoglu
  • Hyeong Seok Yun
  • Lin Jing
  • Sheng Shen
  • Xiao Luo
  • Xiu Liu
  • Zexiao Wang

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • National Science Foundation

Tags

Readers

  • Astronomy/Astrophysics
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology