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Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films
We present an experimental demonstration of passive, dynamic thermal regulation in a solid-state system with temperature-dependent thermal emissivity switching. We achieve this effect using a multilayered device, comprised of a vanadium dioxide (VO(2)) thin film on a silicon substrate with a gold ba...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435187/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32811889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70931-0 |
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author | Morsy, Ahmed M. Barako, Michael T. Jankovic, Vladan Wheeler, Virginia D. Knight, Mark W. Papadakis, Georgia T. Sweatlock, Luke A. Hon, Philip W. C. Povinelli, Michelle L. |
author_facet | Morsy, Ahmed M. Barako, Michael T. Jankovic, Vladan Wheeler, Virginia D. Knight, Mark W. Papadakis, Georgia T. Sweatlock, Luke A. Hon, Philip W. C. Povinelli, Michelle L. |
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description | We present an experimental demonstration of passive, dynamic thermal regulation in a solid-state system with temperature-dependent thermal emissivity switching. We achieve this effect using a multilayered device, comprised of a vanadium dioxide (VO(2)) thin film on a silicon substrate with a gold back reflector. We experimentally characterize the optical properties of the VO(2) film and use the results to optimize device design. Using a calibrated, transient calorimetry experiment we directly measure the temperature fluctuations arising from a time-varying heat load. Under laboratory conditions, we find that the device regulates temperature better than a constant emissivity sample. We use the experimental results to validate our thermal model, which can be used to predict device performance under the conditions of outer space. In this limit, thermal fluctuations are halved with reference to a constant-emissivity sample. |
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spelling | pubmed-74351872020-08-21 Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films Morsy, Ahmed M. Barako, Michael T. Jankovic, Vladan Wheeler, Virginia D. Knight, Mark W. Papadakis, Georgia T. Sweatlock, Luke A. Hon, Philip W. C. Povinelli, Michelle L. Sci Rep Article We present an experimental demonstration of passive, dynamic thermal regulation in a solid-state system with temperature-dependent thermal emissivity switching. We achieve this effect using a multilayered device, comprised of a vanadium dioxide (VO(2)) thin film on a silicon substrate with a gold back reflector. We experimentally characterize the optical properties of the VO(2) film and use the results to optimize device design. Using a calibrated, transient calorimetry experiment we directly measure the temperature fluctuations arising from a time-varying heat load. Under laboratory conditions, we find that the device regulates temperature better than a constant emissivity sample. We use the experimental results to validate our thermal model, which can be used to predict device performance under the conditions of outer space. In this limit, thermal fluctuations are halved with reference to a constant-emissivity sample. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7435187/ /pubmed/32811889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70931-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Morsy, Ahmed M. Barako, Michael T. Jankovic, Vladan Wheeler, Virginia D. Knight, Mark W. Papadakis, Georgia T. Sweatlock, Luke A. Hon, Philip W. C. Povinelli, Michelle L. Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title | Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title_full | Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title_fullStr | Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title_full_unstemmed | Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title_short | Experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
title_sort | experimental demonstration of dynamic thermal regulation using vanadium dioxide thin films |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435187/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32811889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70931-0 |
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