Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Photonic thermal management of coloured objects

  • Wei Li,
  • Yu Shi,
  • Zhen Chen,
  • Shanhui Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06535-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Understanding the tunable range of radiative thermal load for a given colour is important for thermal management of outdoor structures. Here, the authors theoretically and experimentally highlighted all mechanisms through which one can control the radiative thermal load of coloured objects.