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Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, which dictates that the emissivity of a surface equals its absorptivity under thermal equilibrium, which dictates that the emissivity of a surface equals its absorptivity under thermal equilibrium,…

Objects around us constantly emit and absorb thermal radiation. The emission and absorption processes are governed by two fundamental radiative properties: emissivity and absorptivity.For reciprocal systems, the emissivity and absorptivity…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bo Zhao , Cheng Guo , Christina A. C. Garcia , Prineha Narang , Shanhui Fan

The Kirchhoff`s law of thermal radiation stating the equivalence of emissivity and absorptivity at the same wavelength, angle, and polarization, has completely constrained emission and absorption processes. Achieving strong nonreciprocal…

Spectral/angular emissivity $e$ and absorptivity ${\alpha}$ of an object are widely believed to be identical by Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation in reciprocal systems, but this introduces an intrinsic and inevitable energy loss for…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-14 Mengqi Liu , Shuang Xia , Wenjian Wan , Jun Qin , Hua Li , Changying Zhao , Lei Bi , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Thermal radiation is strictly governed by Kirchhoff s law to reach thermal equilibrium. The violation of Kirchhoff s law decouples nonreciprocally the equity between absorptivity and emissivity, enabling exotic thermal engineering…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-11 R. Ma , Y. Yu , Y. Sun , H. Yan , W. Wan

The ability to break Kirchhoff s law is of fundamental importance in thermal radiation. Various nonreciprocal emitters have been proposed to break the balance between absorption and emission. However, the thicknesses of the nonreciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jun Wu , Zhongmin Wang , Han Zhai , Zhangxing Shi , Xiaohu Wu , Feng Wu

The equality between the spectral, directional emittance and absorptance of an object under local thermal equilibrium is known as Kirchhoff's law of radiation. The breakdown of Kirchhoff's law of radiation is physically allowed by breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Yoichiro Tsurimaki , Xin Qian , Simo Pajovic , Fei Han , Mingda Li , Gang Chen

Thermal emission can be conveniently described using Kirchhoff law which states that the emissivity is equal to the absorptivity for isothermal bodies. For a finite size system, absorptivity is replaced by an absorption cross section. Here,…

Kirchhoff s law is one of the most fundamental law in thermal radiation. The violation of traditional Kirchhoff s law provides opportunities for higher energy conversion efficiency. Various micro-structures have been proposed to realize…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Jun Wu , Feng Wu , Tiancheng Zhao , Mauro Antezza , Xiaohu Wu

The Kirchhoff law of thermal radiation, relating emissivity {\epsilon} and absorptance {\alpha}, has been originally formulated for opaque bodies in thermodynamic equilibrium with the environment. However, in many systems of practical…

Recent advancements in nonreciprocal thermal emitters challenge the conventional Kirchhoff's law, which states that emissivity and absorptivity should be equal for a given direction, frequency, and polarization. These emitters can break…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-30 Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh , Changkang Du , Bo Zhao

Violating Kirchhoff's law has so far required nonreciprocal materials patterned in microstructures. In these configurations, the excitation of a guided or polaritonic mode that lies outside the light cone, often via gratings, was a…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-21 Lu Wang , F. Javier García de Abajo , Georgia T. Papadakis

Nonreciprocal thermal emitters that break Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation promise exciting applications for thermal and energy applications. The design of the bandwidth and angular range of the nonreciprocal effect, which directly…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-17 Bach Do , Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh , Taiwo Adebiyi , Bo Zhao , Ruda Zhang

To violate Kirchhoff s law is very important in the areas of thermal radiation. However, due to the weak nonreciprocity in natural materials, it is necessary to engineer novel structures to break the balance between emission and absorption.…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-14 Jun Wu1 , Feng Wu , Tiancheng Zhao , Han Zhai , Xiaohu Wu

Planck's law of thermal radiation depends on the temperature, $T$, and the emissivity, $\epsilon$, of a body, where emissivity is the coupling of heat to radiation that depends on both phonon-electron nonradiative interactions and…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-21 M. Kurtulik , M. Shimanovic , T. Bar Lev , R. Weill , A. Manor , M. Shustov , C. Rotschild

Kirchhoff's law provides a relation between the incident fields a structure can absorb and those it thermally emits. It is generally formulated as a relation between the angle-dependent emissivity and absorptivity of a structure. In this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 D. Tihon , S. Withington

Planck's law of thermal radiation depends only on the temperature T and emissivity $\varepsilon$. It is one of the most fundamental discoveries about light-matter interaction that led to the development of quantum physics. Another basic…

Breaking Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation yields new opportunities in one-way radiative thermal transport and circuitry. We investigate its consequences in the far-field regime in cylindrical cavities, by employing a specular…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-20 Guillem Masdemont , Julien Legendre , Georgia T. Papadakis

Coherent thermal emission for a given polarization has been observed in many metamaterials with micro/nanostructures. A complete description of the thermal emission requires the full characterization of the spectral angular emissivity for…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-21 Chiyu Yang , Wenshan Cai , Zhuomin M. Zhang

Magneto-optic photonic systems can violate Kirchhoff's law of thermal emission by breaking Lorentz reciprocity. We develop a dispersive perturbation theory yielding an analytical expression for magneto-optical resonance frequency shifts in…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-26 Daniel Cui , Aaswath P. Raman
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