On Super-Planckian thermal emission in far field regime
Optics
2016-04-20 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
We study, in the framework of the Landauer theory, the thermal emission in far-field regime, of arbitrary indefinite planar media and finite size systems. We prove that the flux radiated by the former is bounded by the blackbody emission while, for the second, there is in principle, no upper limit demonstrating so the possibility for a super-Planckian thermal emission with finite size systems.
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@article{arxiv.1602.02587,
title = {On Super-Planckian thermal emission in far field regime},
author = {Svend-Age Biehs and Philippe Ben-Abdallah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02587},
year = {2016}
}