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Thermal diode utilizing tunneling of thermal photons

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K17538
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field General applied physics
Research InstitutionToyota Central R&D Lab., Inc.

Principal Investigator

Kota Ito  株式会社豊田中央研究所, フロンティア研究領域, 研究リーダ (70463685)

Research Collaborator Toshiyoshi HIROSHI  東京大学, 生産技術研究所 (50282603)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords熱輻射 / 熱変調器 / 相転移 / 熱ダイオード / 熱工学 / 廃熱利用 / 近接場光
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Thermal diode is attracting broad interest, and near-field radiative heat transfer is expected to control thermal radiation beyond the blackbody limit. We confirmed by experiment that the radiative heat transfer is dynamically modulated beyond the blackbody limit. The near-field electromagnetic heat exchange mediated by phonon-polariton is controlled by the metal-insulator transition of tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide. The heat flux is transferred across a 370 nm gap, which is maintained by the microfabricated spacers and applied pressure. The uniformity of the gap is validated by optical interferometry, and the measured heat transfer is well modeled as the sum of the radiative and the parasitic conductive components. The presented methodology to form a nanometric gap with functional heat flux paves the way to the smart thermal management in various scenes ranging from highly integrated systems to macroscopic apparatus.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2017 2016

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Dynamic Modulation of Radiative Heat Transfer beyond the Blackbody Limit2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito , Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, and Hideo Iizuka
    • Journal Title

      Nano Letters

      Volume: 17 Issue: 7 Pages: 4347-4353

    • DOI

      10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01422

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Directional thermal emission control by coupling between guided mode resonances and tunable plasmons in multilayered graphene2016

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Hideo Iizuka
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Applied Physics

      Volume: 120 Issue: 16 Pages: 163105-163105

    • DOI

      10.1063/1.4966577

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Thermal devices based on electromagnetic heat transfer2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hideo Iizuka, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi
    • Organizer
      The 24th Congress of the International Commission for Optics
    • Place of Presentation
      京王プラザホテル(東京都新宿区)
    • Year and Date
      2017-08-21
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Emission Control by Subwavelength Structures: Tiled MIM Resonators for Parasitic Suppression and Graphene Plasmon toward Active Beaming2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      3rd international workshop on nano-micro thermal radiation
    • Place of Presentation
      Daejon (Korea)
    • Year and Date
      2017-06-26
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Hysteretic Metal-Insulator Transition of VO2 and Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Plays Key Role in Radiative Thermal Information Processing2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      3rd international workshop on nano-micro thermal radiation
    • Place of Presentation
      Daejon (Korea)
    • Year and Date
      2017-06-26
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Metal-insulator-metal metamaterial thermal emitter with the suppression of the parasitic modes2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      2017 MRS spring meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Phoenix (United States of America)
    • Year and Date
      2017-04-17
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Toward radiative thermal information processing: multilevel memory and near-field effect2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      2017 MRS spring meeting
    • Place of Presentation
      Phoenix (United States of America)
    • Year and Date
      2017-04-17
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Hysteretic Metal-Insulator Transition of VO2 and Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Play Key Role in Radiative Thermal Information Processing2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, and Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      NANORAD 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Thermal Emission Control by Subwavelength Structures: Tiled MIM Resonators for Parasitic Suppression and Graphene Plasmon toward Active Beaming2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, and Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      NANORAD 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Thermal devices based on electromagnetic heat transfer2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hideo Iizuka, and Hiroshi Toshiyoshi
    • Organizer
      The 24th international comission for optics
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Metal-Insulator-Metal Metamaterial Thermal Emitter with the Suppression of the Parasitic Modes2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, and Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      MRS spring meeting 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Toward Radiative Thermal Information Processing: Multilevel Memory and Near-Field Effect2017

    • Author(s)
      Kota Ito, Kazutaka Nishikawa, Atsushi Miura, Hiroshi Toshiyoshi, and Hideo Iizuka
    • Organizer
      MRS spring meeting 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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