Thermal emission of macroporous silicon chirped photonic crystals

Opt Lett. 2010 Oct 15;35(20):3348-50. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.003348.

Abstract

In this Letter we report on the thermal properties of macroporous silicon photonic crystals with the unit cell gradually varied along the pore axis. We show experimentally that arbitrarily large omnidirectional total-reflectance bands can be produced with such structures. We also demonstrate that those bands can be effectively used to reduce thermal radiation in large spectral bands.