Abstract
We propose gold-vanadium dioxide microstructures for which the difference in thermally radiated power between the low and high temperature states can be tuned via structural design. We start by incorporating ${{\rm VO}_2}$ in a gold-dielectric-gold waveguide to achieve a temperature-dependent mode effective index. We show that a cavity formed in this waveguide structure has a fundamental resonance wavelength that shifts with temperature. We calculate the thermal radiated power from the cavity at temperatures above and below the phase transition of ${{\rm VO}_2}$ for wavelengths between 8 and 14 µm. We show that the difference in radiated power can be made positive, negative, or zero simply by adjusting the cavity length. Finally, we use our cavity to design thermally emissive metasurfaces with spatial emission patterns that can be inverted with temperature. Our emitters could serve as building blocks in the realization of metasurfaces enabling complex thermal radiation control.
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