Engineered mid-infrared absorbers and thermal emitters have recently enabled a variety of applications including passive cooling and acceleration of water condensation. We demonstrate a large-area absorber in the 8-10 μm range based on a lossy medium with an ultra-low refractive index. Our low-index material is a large-area inverse opal film (air holes, silica matrix), which is crack-free on the centimeter scale. Due to the large fraction of air in these structures (more than 70%), their effective refractive index is close to that of air, facilitating an impedance match for a broad range of incidence angles, and requiring no top-down patterning.
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