Tungsten Based Spectrally Selective Absorbers with Anisotropic Rough Surface Texture

Abstract

Spectrally selective absorbers have received considerable interest due to their applications in thermophotovoltaic devices and as solar absorbers. Due to extreme operating conditions in these applications, such as high temperatures, thermo-mechanically stable and broadband spectrally selective absorbers are of interest. This paper demonstrates anisotropic random rough surfaces that provide broadband spectrally selective absorption for the thermo-mechanically stable Tungsten surfaces. Anisotropic random rough surface has different correlation lengths in the x- and y-directions, which means their topography parameters have directional dependence. In particular, we demonstrate that spectral absorptance of Tungsten random rough surfaces at visible (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions are sensitive to correlation length and RMS height variations. Our results indicate that by optimizing random rough surface parameters, absorption values exceeding 95% can be obtained. Moreover, our results indicate that anisotropic random rough surfaces broaden the bandwidth of the high absorption region. It is shown that in VIS and NIR regions, the absorption enhancements of up to 47% and 52% are achieved for the isotropic and anisotropic rough surfaces, respectively.

Study on Spectral Selective Manipulation Characteristics of Surface Multilevel Micro–Nano Structures by FDTD Simulation

“…At present, the mainstream calculation method for the interaction between micro–nano structures and light is the finite difference time domain method (FDTD) [ 26 ]. The core idea of FDTD is to use the center difference quotient to realize the first-order deviation of the time and space domains, which can clearly describe the trend of the electromagnetic field in the time domain, show the propagation process of the electromagnetic field, and obtain more simulation information [ 27 , 28 , 29 ]. In this paper, based on the previous research on the grating structure [ 30 ], the spectral simulation of two-dimensional topological characteristic structures, such as the periodic circular hole array, periodic cylindrical array, and periodic ring array structures, is carried out by using the FDTD method.…”