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Enhanced radiative heat transfer at nanometric distances
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In this paper, the radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite bodies at subwavelength scale was studied and it was shown that this transfer can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude when the surfaces support resonant surface waves.Abstract:
We study in this article the radiative heat transfer between two semi-infinite bodies at subwavelength scale. We show that this transfer can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude when the surfaces support resonant surface waves. In these conditions, we show that the transfer is almost monochromatic.read more
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Traditional, state-of-the-art and future thermal building insulation materials and solutions – Properties, requirements and possibilities
TL;DR: In this article, the advantages and disadvantages of thermal building insulation materials and solutions have been treated and compared and various properties, requirements and possibilities have been compared and studied. But there is no single insulation material or solution capable of fulfilling all the requirements with respect to the most crucial properties.
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Surface electromagnetic waves thermally excited: Radiative heat transfer, coherence properties and Casimir forces revisited in the near field
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of surface waves on the thermally excited electromagnetic field is discussed. And the authors introduce the fluctuation-dissipation theorem that allows to model the fluctuating electromagnetic fields.
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Surface phonon polaritons mediated energy transfer between nanoscale gaps.
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Radiative Heat Transfer
TL;DR: The study of thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has played a key role in the history of modern physics as mentioned in this paper. But our understanding of this subject has been traditionally bas...
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Near-field radiative heat transfer and noncontact friction
A. I. Volokitin,Bo N. J. Persson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a general formalism for the calculation of the power spectral density for the fluctuating electromagnetic field is presented and applied to the radiative heat transfer and the van der Waals friction using both the semiclassical theory of the fluctuated electromagnetic field and quantum field theory.
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Theory of Radiative Heat Transfer between Closely Spaced Bodies
D. Polder,M. A. Van Hove +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a general formalism is developed by means of which the radiative heat transfer between macroscopic bodies of arbitrary dispersive and absorptive dielectric properties can be evaluated.
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Near-field spectral effects due to electromagnetic surface excitations
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Near-Field Effects in Spatial Coherence of Thermal Sources
TL;DR: In this article, an exact calculation of the cross-spectral density tensor of the near field thermally emitted into free space by an opaque planar surface was presented, based on fluctuational electrodynamics and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem.
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Theory of heat transfer by evanescent electromagnetic waves
TL;DR: A macroscopic, phenomenological theory for the heat flow between two material half-spaces of differing temperatures whose surfaces are separated by a gap of width l, which parallels Liftshitz's calculation of the van der Waals force between two dielectric slabs.