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Thermal annealing is a widely used thin-film processing technique for modifying interfacial optical losses and electronic scattering in plasmonic materials. Here, we investigate how thermal annealing of gold thin films deposited on silicon…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 A. Márquez , R. Esquivel-Sirvent

In this letter, we have demonstrated the possibility to efficiently relay the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles by opening a smooth channel for heat transfer. By coating the nanoparticles with a silica shell and modifying the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Mingjian He , Hong Qi , Yatao Ren , Yijun Zhao , Mauro Antezza

Thermal emission is a ubiquitous and fundamental process by which all objects at non-zero temperatures radiate electromagnetic energy. This process is often presented to be incoherent in both space and time, resulting in broadband,…

Three decades into the research seeking to derive the urban energy budget, the dynamics of the thermal exchange between the densely built infrastructure and the environment are still not well understood. We present a novel hybrid…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Masoud Ghandehari , Thorsten Emig , Milad Aghamohamadnia

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

6G networks will be required to support higher data rates, improved energy efficiency, lower latency, and more diverse users compared with 5G systems. To meet these requirements, electrically extremely large-scale antenna arrays are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Yonina C. Eldar

It has been shown recently that the Coulomb part of electromagnetic interactions is more important than transverse propagation waves for the near-field enhancement of heat transfer between metal objects at a distance of order nanometers.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Jian-Sheng Wang , Zu-Quan Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü

We explore that two ferromagnetic insulator slabs host a strong twist-induced near-field radiative heat transfer in the presence of twisted magnetic fields. Using the formalism of fluctuational electrodynamics, we find the existence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Jiebin Peng , Gaomin Tang , Luqin Wang , Rair Macêdo , Hong Chen , Jie Ren

This paper presents a brief overview of some recent advances in numerical radiative transfer, which may help the molecular astrophysics community to achieve new breakthroughs in the interpretation of spectro-(polarimetric) observations.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Trujillo Bueno

A near-field microwave imaging system attempts to reveal the presence of an object and/or an electrical property distribution by measuring the scattered field from many positions surrounding the object. Over the past few decades, both the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Wenyi Shao

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

We demonstrate the possibility to efficiently split the near-field heat flux exchanged between graphene nano-disks by tuning their doping. This result paves the way for the developement of an active control of propagation directions for…

We show that periodic multilayered structures allow to drastically enhance near-field radiative heat transfer between nanoparticles. In particular, when the two nanoparticles are placed on each side of the multilayered structure, at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Yong Zhang , Hong-Liang Yi , He-Ping Tan , Mauro Antezza

We present a theoretical study of the effect of an external dc magnetic field in the near-field radiative heat transfer between two one-dimensional magneto-photonic crystals with unit cells comprising a magneto-optical layer made of n-doped…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-03 E. Moncada-Villa , J. C. Cuevas

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

Radiative thermal diodes based on two-element structures rectify heat flows thanks to a temperature dependence of material optical properties. The heat transport asymmetry through these systems, however, remains weak without a significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Ivan Latella , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Moladad Nikbakht

In modern surgery, a multitude of minimally intrusive operational techniques are used which are based on the punctual heating of target zones of human tissue via laser or radio-frequency currents. Traditionally, these processes are modeled…

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Controlling photon mediated energy flow is central to the future of communications, thermal management, and energy harvesting technologies. Recent breakthroughs have revealed that many body systems violating Lorentz reciprocity can sustain…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-16 Sina Jafari Ghalekohneh , Bo Zhao

We analyze the coupling between conduction and radiative heat transfer in near-field regime between two coaxial cylinders separated by a vacuum gap. By solving the heat transport equation in the steady-state regime between metals or polar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chams Gharib Ali Barura , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina

We present a general framework for studying strongly coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer between arbitrarily shaped bodies separated by sub-wavelength distances. Our formulation is based on a macroscopic approach that couples our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Weiliang Jin , Riccardo Messina , Alejandro W. Rodriguez