Multi-Physics Metamaterials for Thermal Management and Heat Manipulation
Abstract
In this bold five-year research program, we will introduce a new paradigm for artificial materials with tailored functional responses, enabling a powerful multi-physics metamaterial platform over which phenomena pertaining to different physical domains are strongly coupled at deeply subwavelength scales, in order to support unprecedented control over thermal radiation and heat flow. Thermal emission and related spontaneous processes play a fundamental role in basic science and in a wide range of technologies of Department of Defense (DoD) relevance, including temperature and thermal management, photovoltaics, lighting, circuit and quantum noise control, infrared detection and thermal signature control. The proposed research program is an inherently basic research endeavor of high-risk/high-reward nature, aimed at conceiving and creating disruptive innovations in the area of artificial engineered materials for extreme wave manipulation, to be applied specifically in the context of thermal radiation manipulation and heat management. It will span a broad interdisciplinary research context, including electrical engineering, nano-optics, thermodynamics, electronics and condensed matter physics, material science and mathematics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2019
- Source ID
- N000141912643
Entities
People
- Andrea Alù
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Research Foundation of The City University of New York
- United States Navy