Dr. Araki received Doctor of Philosophy from Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Texas in December 2022. He received Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering at Niigata University, Japan in March 2019. He conducts research on thermal radiation and nanophotonics.
Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of North Texas (8/2019-12/2022)
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Niigata University, Japan (4/2017-3/2019)
Nanophotonics, 2D materials, transition metal oxides, thermal radiaiton
Publications
K. Araki and R.Z. Zhang, “Infrared Radiative Switching With Thermally and Electrically Tunable Transition Metal Oxides-Based Plasmonic Grating.” Submitted to Scientific Reports on Dec. 5, 2022.
R.Z. Zhang and K. Araki, “Ultralow Emittance Thermal Radiation Barrier Achieved by a High-Contrast Grating Coating.” AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 1-13 (2022).
K. Araki and R.Z. Zhang, “Simultaneous solar rejection and infrared emission switching using an integrated dielectrics-on-VO2 metasurface.” AIP Advances 12 (5), 055205 (2022).
K. Araki and R.Z. Zhang, “An optimized self-adaptive thermal radiative turn-down coating with vanadium dioxide nanowire array.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 191, 122835 (2022).
K. Araki and R.Z. Zhang, “Mechano-Optical Resonant Emission by Edge Angle Modulation of Wrinkled Graphene on Plasmonic Metal Gratings.” ACS Applied Nano Materials 4 (8), 8399-8407 (2021).
K. Araki and R.Z. Zhang, “Plasmon-resonance emission tailoring of “origami” graphene-covered photonic grating.” Optics Express 28 (15), 22791-22802 (2020).