Radiative thermal diode driven by non-reciprocal surface waves
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2019-04-30 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate the possibility to rectify the nanoscale radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles by coupling them with the nonreciprocal surface modes of a magneto-optical substrate in a Voigt configuration. When the non-reciprocal medium supports a surface wave in the spectral window where heat exchanges take place the rectification coefficient can reach large values opening so the way to the design of true thermal diodes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.10751,
title = {Radiative thermal diode driven by non-reciprocal surface waves},
author = {Annika Ott and Riccardo Messina and Philippe Ben-Abdallah and Svend-Age Biehs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10751},
year = {2019}
}