Multiscale photonic materials with adjustable absorption and thermal emission (C01)

• Subject Area: Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas ; Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
• Term: from 2012 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192346071

Project C1 focuses on the description of the optical properties of metal-dielectric multiscale material systems. The new proposal will be dealing with both adjustment and tunability of the absorption and emission of such material systems, which are interesting as tunable structural color, smart windows or switchable thermal emitters. This will be done by adjustment of the structure design and by the tunability of the dielectric function of metals via surface modification, phase transformations and temperature.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 986: Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems - M3
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Hamburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Manfred Eich; Dr. Alexander Petrov