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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

In a complementary article, we exploited algebraic properties of Maxwell's equations and fundamental principles such as electromagnetic reciprocity and passivity, to derive fundamental limits to radiative heat transfer applicable in near-…

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

We study the radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite half-spaces, bounded by conductive surfaces in contact with vacuum. This setup is interpreted as a four-terminal mesoscopic transport problem. The slabs and interfaces are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Han Hoe Yap , Jian-Sheng Wang

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

In this work we analyze the incidence of the plates' thickness on the Casimir force and radiative heat transfer for a configuration of parallel plates in a non-equilibrium scenario, relating to Lifshitz's and Landauer's formulas. From a…

We investigate the near-field radiative heat transfer between a normally and/or laterally shifted nanoparticle and a planar fused silica slab coated with a strip graphene grating. For this study we develop and use a scattering matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Minggang Luo , Youssef Jeyar , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

We examine the near-field radiative heat transfer between finite-thickness planar fused silica slabs covered with graphene gratings, through the utilization of the Fourier modal method augmented with local basis functions (FMM-LBF), with…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-20 Minggang Luo , Youssef Jeyar , Brahim Guizal , Mauro Antezza

We simplify the formalism of Polder and Van Hove [Phys.Rev.B {\bf 4}, 3303(1971)], which was developed to calculate the heat transfer between macroscopic and nanoscale bodies of arbitrary shape, dispersive and adsorptive dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

A general theory of photon-mediated energy and momentum transfer in N-body planar systems out of thermal equilibrium is introduced. It is based on the combination of the scattering theory and the fluctuational-electrodynamics approach in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-04 Ivan Latella , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Svend-Age Biehs , Mauro Antezza , Riccardo Messina

We study heat transfer mediated by near-field fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. In case of metals the latter are dominated by Coulomb interactions between thermal fluctuations of electronic density. We show that an elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Alex Kamenev

In this work we focus on the surface roughness correction to the near-field radiative heat transfer between a nanoparticle and a material with a rough surface utilizing a direct perturbation theory up to second order in the surface profile.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Svend-Age Biehs , Jean-Jacques Greffet

We present high precision measurements of the radiative heat transfer of a glass microsphere immersed in a thermal bath in vacuum facing three different planar substrates (SiO2, SiC and Au), which exhibit very different optical behaviors in…

We derive shape-independent limits to the spectral radiative heat-transfer rate between two closely spaced bodies, generalizing the concept of a black body to the case of near-field energy transfer. Through conservation of energy and…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-18 Owen D. Miller , Steven G. Johnson , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

We investigate the full counting statistics of extreme-near-field radiative heat transfer using nonequilibrium Green's function formalism. In the extreme near field, the electron-electron interactions between two metallic bodies dominate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Gaomin Tang , Jian-Sheng Wang

We study the near-field radiative energy transfer between graphene and an amorphous SiO$_2$ substrate. In comparison with the existing theories of near-field radiative heat transfer our theory takes into account that the free carriers in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 A. I. Volokitin , B. N. J. Persson

Heat transfer is studied in the system of electron double layers of correlated composite fermion quantum liquids. In the near-field regime, the primary mechanism governing interlayer energy transfer is mediated by the Coulomb interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Dmitry Zverevich , Alex Levchenko

Here, we outline a theory of radiative heat transfer based on an equivalent electrical network representation for the hot material slabs in an arbitrary multilayered environment with arbitrary distribution of temperatures and…

In this Letter a N-body theory for the radiative heat exchange in thermally non equilibrated discrete systems of finite size objects is presented. We report strong exaltation effects of heat flux which can be explained only by taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Svend-Age Biehs , Karl Joulain

The spatially resolved near-field radiative heat transfer between a nanoscale probe and a substrate is studied in the fluctuational electrodynamics framework within the dipolar approximation. It is shown that the introduction of a thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Milo Vescovo , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina

We present a theory to describe the fluctuations of nonequilibrium radiative heat transfer between two bodies both in far and near-field regime. As predicted by the blackbody theory, in far field, we show that the variance of radiative heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Svend-Age Biehs , Philippe Ben-Abdallah