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In this work, we study the near-field radiative heat transfer between two suspended sheets of anisotropic 2D materials. It is found that the radiative heat transfer can be enhanced with orders-of-magnitude over the blackbody limit for…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-09 Lixin Ge , Yuping Cang , Ke Gong , Lihai Zhou , Daqing Yu , Yongsong Luo

We investigate the effects of hydrodynamic nonlocal response in hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), focusing on the experimentally realizable parameter regime where unit cells are much smaller than an optical wavelength but much larger than…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-19 Wei Yan , N. Asger Mortensen , Martijn Wubs

The untapped potential of thermal metamaterials requires the simultaneous observation of both diffusive and wave-like heat propagation across multiple length scales that can only be realised through theories beyond Fourier. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-06 Harry Mclean , Francis Huw Davies , Ned Thaddeus Taylor , Steven Paul Hepplestone

Asymmetric heat transfer systems, often referred to as thermal diodes or thermal rectifiers, have garnered increasing interest due to their wide range of application possibilities. Most of those previous macroscopic thermal diodes either…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Yishu Su , Ying Li , Minghong Qi , Sebastien Guenneau , Huagen Li , Jian Xiong

We explore broadband, wide-angle mid-infrared rectification based on nanopatterned hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM), composed of two dissimilar metals separated by a sub-nanometer tunnel barrier. The exotic slow-light modes supported by such…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-25 Pai-Yen Chen , Mehdi Hajizadegan , Maryam Sakhdari , Andrea Alù

In this paper we demonstrate that asymmetric hyperbolic metamaterials (AHM) can produce strongly directive thermal emission in far-field zone, which exceeds Planck's limit. Asymmetry is inherent in an uniaxial medium, whose optical axes are…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Igor Nefedov , Leonid Melnikov

We review the near-field radiative heat flux between hyperbolic materials focusing on multilayer hyperbolic meta-materials. We discuss the formation of the hyperbolic bands, the impact of ordering of the multilayer slabs, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The transport of heat mediated by thermal photons in hyperbolic multilayer metamaterials is studied using the fluctuational electrodynamics theory. We demonstrate that in comparison to bulk materials the flux inside layered hyperbolic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Maria Tschikin , Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Slawa Lang , Alexander Petrov , Manfred Eich

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) are artificially engineered materials that exhibit hyperbolic dispersion of light propagating through them. These have been extensively studied for tailoring light propagation. Most studies use an effective…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-08 Amitrajit Nag , Girish S. Agarwal , Jaydeep K. Basu

We model the broadband enhancement of single-photon emission from color centres in silicon carbide nanocrystals coupled to a planar hyperbolic metamaterial, HMM resonator. The design is based on positioning the single photon emitters within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 F. A. Inam , N. Ahmed , M. J. Steel , S. Castelletto

Radiative heat transfer between parallel objects separated by deep sub-wavelength distances and subject to large thermal gradients (>100 K) could enable breakthrough technologies for electricity generation and thermal transport control.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Raphael St-Gelais , Linxiao Zhu , Shanhui Fan , Michal Lipson

Metamaterials possess artificial bulk and surface electromagnetic states. Tamed dispersion properties of surface waves allow one to achieve controllable super-Planckian radiative heat transfer (RHT) process between two closely spaced…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-28 Jin Dai , Sergey A. Dyakov , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi , Min Yan

Van der Waals heterostructures have emerged as promising building blocks that offer access to new physics, novel device functionalities, and superior electrical and optoelectronic properties. Applications such as thermal management,…

Near-field radiative heat transfer between bodies at the nanoscale can surpass blackbody limits on thermal radiation by orders of magnitude due to contributions from evanescent electromagnetic fields, which carry no energy to the far-field.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Sean Molesky , Prashanth S. Venkataram , Weiliang Jin , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Near-field radiative heat transfer between close objects may exceed the far-field blackbody radiation in orders of magnitude when exploiting polaritonic materials. Great efforts have been made to experimentally measure this fundamental…

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) offer unconventional properties in the field of optics, enabling opportunities for confinement and propagation of light at the nanoscale. In-plane orientation of the optical axis, in the direction coinciding…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-09 I. Murataj , M. Channab , E. Cara , C. F. Pirri , L. Boarino , A. Angelini , F. Ferrarese Lupi

Coupled surface plasmon/phonon polaritons and hyperbolic modes are known to enhance radiative transport across nanometer vacuum gaps but usually require identical materials. It becomes crucial to achieve strong near-field energy transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Jui-Yung Chang , Yue Yang , Liping Wang

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as the new state-of-the-art family of deep generative models. To gain deeper insights into the limitations of diffusion models in recommender systems, we investigate the fundamental structural disparities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Meng Yuan , Yutian Xiao , Wei Chen , Chu Zhao , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

We employ both the effective medium approximation (EMA) and Bloch theory to compare the dispersion properties of semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials (SHMs) at mid-infrared frequencies and metallic hyperbolic metamaterials (MHMs) at…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Salvatore Campione , Sheng Liu , Ting S. Luk , Michael B. Sinclair

In order to ensure the fastest wireless energy transfer from a source to the user one needs to maximize the channel capacity for power transport. In communications technologies, the concept of MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) exploits…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos , Sergei A. Tretyakov