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Nanophotonic catalytic combustion enlightens mid-infrared light source

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The tunable mid-infrared source in a broad-spectrum heralds great scientific implications and remains a challenge. Nano-localized catalytic combustion facilitates access to customizable infrared light sources. Here, we report on fabricating platinum-alumina bilayer nano-cylinder arrays for methanol catalytic combustion, which enables them to act as an array of infrared point light sources, with wavelength tunable by controlling the flow rate of methanol/air mixture. We then propose a technique of integrating nanophotonic structures with catalytic combustion to engineer infrared light emission. We demonstrate a prototype of a topological photonic crystal catalyst array in which infrared emission can be enhanced significantly with highly vertical emission. This work establishes a framework of nanophotonic catalytic combustion for infrared light sources.

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Acknowledgments

The work was supported by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (Nos. 10520710400, 10PJ1403800, and 11DZ1111200), Sichuan Science and Technology Program (Nos. 2021JDRC0022 and 2022YFSY0023). The authors acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62201345), the startup fund of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the start-up funding of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The authors would like to thank the Center for Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices (AEMD) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Instrumental Analysis Center.

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  1. National Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro and Nano Manufacture Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhenhua Wu, Zekun Liu, Shuai Zhang & Zhiyu Hu

  2. Department of Micro/Nano Electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhenhua Wu, Zekun Liu & Shuai Zhang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhenhua Wu & Wenbin Zhang

  4. Institute of NanoMicro Energy, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Zhimao Wu, Erzhen Mu & Hengxin Lin

  5. School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China

    Haoran Lv & Qing Zhang

  6. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, 454000, China

    Erzhen Mu

  7. Department of Instrument Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Daxiang Cui

  8. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, New York, 14260, USA

    Thomas Thundat

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Wu, Z., Wu, Z., Lv, H. et al. Nanophotonic catalytic combustion enlightens mid-infrared light source. Nano Res. 16, 11564–11570 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-6097-9

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