Strong multi-band nonreciprocal radiation with Fibonacci multilayer involving Weyl semimetal

Abstract

The strong multi-band nonreciprocal radiation with Fibonacci multilayer is studied. It consists of a Weyl semimetal planar and a dielectric layer on a Fibonacci multilayer and a metal reflector. Here, without loss of generality, a quad-band nonreciprocal radiation effect is investigated as an illustration. The results show that four pairs of near-perfect absorption and emission are achieved that do not overlapped with each other, leading to perfect quad-channel nonreciprocal radiation. The underlying physical origin is revealed by investing the magnetic field magnitude distributions and is further verified by impedance matching theory. In addition, the influence of incident angle and geometric parameters on spectral nonreciprocity is investigated, and it is found that the performance can remain excellent in a wide range of geometric parameters, which reduces manufacturing costs. What’s more, the scheme can be easily expanded to achieve multi-band nonreciprocal radiation with the channel number larger than four by simply increasing the Fibonacci order. We believe that the designed structure should pave the way for the development of nonreciprocal thermal emitters with more advanced functions.

Keywords

• Fibonacci multilayer
• Kirchhoff’s law
• Nonreciprocity
• Weyl semimetal