Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center have made significant strides in manipulating the optical properties of thermal radiation using metasurfaces.
Their latest study demonstrates how these two-dimensional materials can control thermal radiation to create customizable light sources, which could influence a range of applications from military operations to space technology.
In a groundbreaking advancement, researchers with the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have experimentally demonstrated that metasurfaces (two-dimensional materials structured at the nanoscale) can precisely control the optical properties of thermal radiation generated within the metasurface itself. This pioneering work, published in Nature Nanotechnology, paves the way for creating custom light sources with unprecedented capabilities, impacting a wide array of scientific and technological applications.
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