Affiliation:
1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Yonsei University Seoul 03722 Korea
Abstract
AbstractEngineering the infrared (IR) emissivity of a material or structure is crucial for a variety of fields, including thermal camouflage, radiative cooling, personal thermal management, and optical security. For practical and wide‐spread use, the emitter should possess high mechanical flexibility while maintaining the capabilities of space‐selectively and dynamically controlling its emissivity. In this paper, an optical resonator consisting of a Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) layer on top of a thin metal reflector stationed on a flexible substrate is presented as an IR emitter that satisfies the aforementioned requirements. A laser‐induced phase change from amorphous to crystalline GST enables dynamic tuning of the local emissivity of the resonator. This study illustrates that although GST is a brittle material, the emitters fabricated on plastic and paper substrates are highly robust against bending up to a radius of curvature of 0.5 cm. Moreover, visible light and IR images can be independently recorded in the same region by employing a spatially modulated laser beam owing to the multispectral properties of GST. The fact that a single emitter can exhibit different visible and IR images is particularly attractive for optical security applications, including anti‐forgery. This feature is experimentally demonstrated using white paper and color‐printed paper.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
Subject
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
Cited by
3 articles.
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