学术报告：Controlling Thermal Radiation by nano-optical materials for Large Scale Energy Applications

报告人：Prof. Xiaobo Yin

报告时间：2017年6月19日（周一）10：00，

报告地点：比较靠谱的赌博大平台九龙湖校区田家炳楼南205

Abstract:

Micro/nano- structured materials offer significantly new opportunities for high efficiency devices and systems for energy harvesting, conversion and storage. Fundamental understanding at the small scale enables us to design structures and materials with unprecedented performances. However, there is a tremendous gap between the proof-of-principle demonstration at small scale and the intrinsically large scale real-world thermal and energy systems. As one example, energy use for cooling and air conditioning is poised to increase dramatically over the next several decades driven by population, climate and economics. In this talk, I will give an overview on our research progress and, more specifically, present our recent development on thermal radiation control for large scale radiative cooling applications. We demonstrated the scalable manufactured micro-optical composite with extreme light-material interaction provides a 24/7 continuous cooling power of 110 W/m^2 without consuming electricity or water.

Selected publications:

[1] Xiaobo Yin, Ziliang Ye, Daniel A. Chenet, Yu Ye, Kevin O'Brien, James C. Hone, and Xiang Zhang, “Edge Nonlinear Optics on a MoS2 Atomic Monolayer", Science 344, 488 (2014);

[2] Xiaobo Yin, Z. L. Ye, J. Rho, Y. Wang, and X. Zhang, “Photonic Spin-Hall Effect at Metasurfaces”, Science 339, 1405 (2013);

[3] Xiaobo Yin and X. Zhang, “Unidirectional light propagation at exceptional points”, Nature Materials 12, 175 (2013);

[4] M. Liu*, Xiaobo Yin* (contributed equally to the work), E. Ulin-Avila, B. S. Geng, T. Zentgraf, L. Ju, F. Wang, and X. Zhang, “A graphene-based broadband optical modulator”, Nature 474, 64 (2011);

[5] J. Yao, X. Yang, Xiaobo Yin, G. Bartal, and X. Zhang, "Three-dimensional nanometer-scale optical cavities of indefinite medium", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 11327 (2011);

[6] C. Hu, A. Labno, C. Lu, Xiaobo Yin, M. Liu, C. Gladden, Y. M. Liu, X. Zhang, “Probing the electromagnetic field of a 15nm sized hotspot by single molecule imaging”, Nature 469, 385 (2011);

Short bio:

Dr. Xiaobo Yin received his PhD from Stanford University in 2008 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on radiative heat transfer, high temperature materials, and scalable manufacturing. He authored and co- authored more than 60 papers on Science, Nature, and other top journals with 1,800 citations annually. His works have been featured on numerous media outlets including Physics Today, Scientific American, the Economists, and Forbes.