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A thermal emitter composed of a frequency-selective surface metamaterial layer and a hexagonal boron nitride-encapsulated graphene filament is demonstrated. The broadband thermal emission of the metamaterial (consisting of ring resonators) was tailored into two discrete bands, and the measured reflection and emission spectra agreed well with the simulation results. The high modulation frequencies that can be obtained in these devices, coupled with their operation in air, confirm their feasibility for use in applications such as gas sensing.
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The article Metamaterial-based graphene thermal emitter, written by Cheng Shi, Nathan H. Mahlmeister, Isaac J. Luxmoore, and Geoffrey R. Nash, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on December 6th 2017 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed in February 2018 to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.
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C.S., I.J.L. and G.R.N. acknowledge financial support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom via the Centre for Doctoral Training in Electromagnetic Metamaterials (No. EP/L015331/1). G.R.N. also acknowledges the support of EPSRC via a Fellowship in Frontier Manufacturing (No. EP/J018651/1). The authors would like to thank Hannah Barnard for useful discussions.
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Shi, C., Mahlmeister, N.H., Luxmoore, I.J. et al. Metamaterial-based graphene thermal emitter. Nano Res. 11, 3567–3573 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1922-7
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