NANOSTRUCTURES THERMAL EMISSION OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND PARTICLE SWARMS

E. Nefzaoui, J. Drevillon, K. Joulain

2010

Abstract

Nanotechnologies and nanofabrication techniques provided unmeasureable possibilities to control intrinsic microscopic features of materials and structures in the last years. In particular, materials optical properties and light propagation control have been some of the most challenging problems due to their various application possiblities. The present investigation shows that temporally coherent thermal sources have been successfully designed and optimized with evolutionary optimization methods such as genetic algorithms and particle swarms. This lead to a bilayer structure of germanium and silicon carbide, which is, to our knowledge, the simplest existing structure with such properties.

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Nefzaoui E., Drevillon J. and Joulain K. (2010). NANOSTRUCTURES THERMAL EMISSION OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND PARTICLE SWARMS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 219-224. DOI: 10.5220/0003083802190224


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@conference{icec10,
author={E. Nefzaoui and J. Drevillon and K. Joulain},
title={NANOSTRUCTURES THERMAL EMISSION OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND PARTICLE SWARMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={219-224},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003083802190224},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - NANOSTRUCTURES THERMAL EMISSION OPTIMIZATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND PARTICLE SWARMS
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Nefzaoui E.
AU - Drevillon J.
AU - Joulain K.
PY - 2010
SP - 219
EP - 224
DO - 10.5220/0003083802190224