UCLA — Raman Lab

Snapshot

Country	United States
City	Los Angeles, CA
Tier	Engineered
Primary ecosystem	Engineered Emissivity
Unit	Raman Lab, Materials Science and Engineering
Publicly linked people	Aaswath Raman

Why it matters internationally

The Raman Lab descends directly from the experiments that made daytime radiative sky cooling real, and now leads on directional and spectral control of thermal emission. It anchors the engineered-emissivity tier: emissivity treated not as a property to measure but as a design variable.

Scope of activity

Quantities: spectral and directional emissivity (engineered) · radiative cooling performance
Spectral range: solar and sky-window (8–13 µm) bands
Methodology: Radiative sky cooling (lineage of the first daytime demonstration); spectral and directional emissivity control via gradient epsilon-near-zero structures; broadband directional thermal emission.

Application domains: passive radiative cooling · thermal photonics.

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Every claim in this profile traces to the external sources listed above. Profile follows the research-map methodology. Added to the directory: 2026-06-11 (verified against the institution’s public pages or peer-reviewed publications).