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ArticleiScience2023

Machine learning enabled rational design for dynamic thermal emitters with phase change materials.

Jining Wang, Yaohui Zhan, Wei Ma, Hongyu Zhu, Yao Li, Xiaofeng Li

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Jining WangSchool of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province & Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
Yaohui ZhanSchool of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province & Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
Wei MaState Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Hongyu ZhuSchool of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province & Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.
Yao LiCenter for Composite Materials and Structure, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.
Xiaofeng LiSchool of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province & Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic thermal emitters have attracted considerable attention due to their potential in widespread applications such as radiative cooling, thermal switching, and adaptive camouflage. However, the state-of-art performances of dynamic emitters are still far below expectations. Here, customized to the special and stringent requirement of dynamic emitters, a neural network model is developed to effectively bridge the structural and spectral spaces and further realizes the inverse design with coupling to genetic algorithms, which considers the broadband spectral responses in different phase-states and utilizes comprehensive measures to ensure the modeling accuracy and computational speed. Besides achieving an outstanding emittance tunability of 0.8, the physics and empirical rules have also been mined qualitatively through decision trees and gradient analyses. The study demonstrates the feasibility of using machine learning to obtain the near-perfect performance of dynamic emitters, as well as guiding the design of other thermal and photonic nanostructures with multifunctions.

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Materials sciencePhase TransitionsPhysicsThermal property

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PMID37250787
PMCPMC10220477

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