中国物理B ›› 2017, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (5): 57301-057301.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/5/057301

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Thermal emission properties of one-dimensional grating with different parameters

Weixin Lin(林伟新), Guozhou Li(李国洲), Qiang Li(李强), Hongjin Hu(胡宏锦), Fang Han(韩防), Fanwei Zhang(张樊伟), Lijun Wu(吴立军)   

  1. 1 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devics, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China;
    2 Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
  • 收稿日期:2016-11-07 修回日期:2016-12-16 出版日期:2017-05-05 发布日期:2017-05-05
  • 通讯作者: Lijun Wu E-mail:ljwu@scnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61378082 and 61675070) and the Project of High-level Professionals in the Universities of Guangdong Province, China.

Thermal emission properties of one-dimensional grating with different parameters

Weixin Lin(林伟新)1, Guozhou Li(李国洲)1, Qiang Li(李强)2, Hongjin Hu(胡宏锦)1, Fang Han(韩防)1, Fanwei Zhang(张樊伟)1, Lijun Wu(吴立军)1   

  1. 1 Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devics, School of Information and Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China;
    2 Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
  • Received:2016-11-07 Revised:2016-12-16 Online:2017-05-05 Published:2017-05-05
  • Contact: Lijun Wu E-mail:ljwu@scnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61378082 and 61675070) and the Project of High-level Professionals in the Universities of Guangdong Province, China.

摘要:

Thermal emission is often presented as a typical incoherent process. Incorporating periodic structures on the tungsten surface offers the possibility to obtain coherent thermal emission sources. Here we illustrate grating as an example to examine the influence of the geometric parameters on the thermal emission properties. It is found that for very shallow gratings, only surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes can be excited and the emission efficiency is closely related with the filling factor. When the ratio of the depth to period of the grating is in the range from 1/20 to 1/2, the field between the adjacent corners can be coupled to each other across the air gap for the filling factor larger than 0.5 and produce a similar resonance as in an air rod. Further increase of the grating depth can cause the groove of the grating forming metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures and induce surface plasmon standing wave modes. Our investigations will not only be helpful for manipulating thermal emission properties according to applications, but also help us understand the coupling mechanism between the incident electromagnetism waves and gratings with different parameters in various research fields.

关键词: surface plasmon polaritons, thermal emission, grating, surface plasmon standing wave

Abstract:

Thermal emission is often presented as a typical incoherent process. Incorporating periodic structures on the tungsten surface offers the possibility to obtain coherent thermal emission sources. Here we illustrate grating as an example to examine the influence of the geometric parameters on the thermal emission properties. It is found that for very shallow gratings, only surface plasmon polariton (SPP) modes can be excited and the emission efficiency is closely related with the filling factor. When the ratio of the depth to period of the grating is in the range from 1/20 to 1/2, the field between the adjacent corners can be coupled to each other across the air gap for the filling factor larger than 0.5 and produce a similar resonance as in an air rod. Further increase of the grating depth can cause the groove of the grating forming metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures and induce surface plasmon standing wave modes. Our investigations will not only be helpful for manipulating thermal emission properties according to applications, but also help us understand the coupling mechanism between the incident electromagnetism waves and gratings with different parameters in various research fields.

Key words: surface plasmon polaritons, thermal emission, grating, surface plasmon standing wave

中图分类号:  (Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))

  • 73.20.Mf
44.40.+a (Thermal radiation) 41.50.+h (X-ray beams and x-ray optics)