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It is well established that near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) can exceed Planck's blackbody limit1 by orders of magnitude owing to the tunneling of evanescent electromagnetic frustrated and surface modes2-4, as has been…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Lei Tang , Lívia M. Corrêa , Mathieu Francoeur , Chris Dames

We describe a novel fluctuating-surface current formulation of radiative heat transfer between bodies of arbitrary shape that exploits efficient and sophisticated techniques from the surface-integral-equation formulation of classical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Alejandro W. Rodriguez , M. T. Homer Reid , Steven G. Johnson

Recently, many works have experimentally demonstrated near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) exceeding the far-field blackbody limit between planar surfaces. Due to the difficulties associated with maintaining the nanosize gaps required…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 John DeSutter , Lei Tang , Mathieu Francoeur

We predict an additional thermal transport pathway across metal/non-metal interfaces with large electron-phonon non-equilibrium via evanescent radiative heat transfer. In such systems, electron scattering processes vary drastically and can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 William D. Hutchins , Saman Zare , Mehran Habibzadeh , Sheila Edalatpour , Patrick E. Hopkins

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between rough surfaces, due to its widespread presence in engineering practice of near-field energy utilization, requires indepth studies, especially from the perspective of physical mechanism. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Deyu Xu , Ahamed Bilal , Junming Zhao , Linhua Liu , Zhuomin Zhang

Radiative heat-transport mediated by near-field interactions is known to be superdiffusive in dilute, many-body systems. In this Letter we use a generalized Landauer theory of radiative heat transfer in many-body planar systems to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Ivan Latella , Svend-Age Biehs , Riccardo Messina , Alejandro W. Rodriguez , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Using the standard fluctuational electrodynamics framework, we analytically calculate the radiative heat current between two thin metallic layers, separated by a vacuum gap. We analyse different contributions to the heat current (travelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Jonathan L. Wise , Denis M. Basko

We study heat radiation and heat transfer for pointlike particles in a system of other objects. Starting from exact many-body expressions found from scattering theory and fluctuational electrodynamics, we find that transfer and radiation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Kiryl Asheichyk , Boris Müller , Matthias Krüger

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

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between dissimilar materials supporting surface polaritons in the infrared is of critical importance for applications such as photonic thermal rectification and near-field thermophotovoltaics.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Lei Tang , John DeSutter , Mathieu Francoeur

There has been a paradigm shift from the well-known laws of thermal radiation derived over a century ago, valid only when the length scales involved are much larger than the thermal wavelength (around 10 $\mu$m at room temperature), to a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Pierre-Olivier Chapuis , Bong Jae Lee , Alejandro Rodriguez

Near-field radiative heat transfer (RHT) can surpass Planck's blackbody limit by several orders of magnitude due to the tunneling effect of thermal photons. The ability to understand and regulate RHT is of great significance in contactless…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-07 Jian-You Wang , Yong Zhang , Xiao-Ping Luo , Mauro Antezza , Hong-Liang Yi

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) is strongly related with many applications such as near-field imaging, thermos-photovoltaics and thermal circuit devices. The active control of NFRHT is of great interest since it provides a degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Lixin Ge , Ke Gong , Yuping Cang , Yongsong Luo , Xi Shi , Ying Wu

Enhancement and peaks in near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) typically arise due to surface phonon-polaritons, plasmon-polaritons, and electromagnetic (EM) modes in structured materials. However, the role of material quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Wenbo Sun , Zhuomin M. Zhang , Zubin Jacob

Here, we develop 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…

We study in this work the near-field radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite parallel planes of highly n-doped semiconductors. Using a nonlocal model of the dielectric permittivity, usually used for the case of metallic planes, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-20 F. Singer , Y. Ezzahri , Karl Joulain

Near-field heat radiation and transfer are rich in various exciting effects, in particular, regarding the amplification due to the geometrical configuration of the system. In this paper, we study heat exchange in situations where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Kiryl Asheichyk , Matthias Krüger

The non-contact heat transfer between two bodies is more efficient than the Stefan-Boltzmann law, when the distances are on the nanometer scale (shorter than Wien's wavelength), due to contributions of thermally excited near fields. This is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Carsten Henkel , Paul Philip Schmidt

We present a general and convenient first principle method to study near-field radiative heat transfer. We show that the Landauer-like expression of heat flux can be expressed in terms of a frequency and wave-vector dependent macroscopic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Tao Zhu , Zu-Quan Zhang , Zhibin Gao , Jian-Sheng Wang

The radiative properties of most structures are intimately connected to the way in which their constituents are ordered on the nano-scale. We have proposed a new representation for radiative heat transfer formalism in many-body systems. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Moladad Nikbakht