Upper limits to near-field radiative heat transfer: generalizing the blackbody concept

For 75 years it has been known that radiative heat transfer can exceed far-field blackbody rates when two bodies are separated by less than a thermal wavelength. Yet an open question has remained: what is the maximum achievable radiative transfer rate? Here we describe basic energy-conservation prin...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Steven G. (Author), Miller, Owen D. (Contributor), Rodriguez, Alejandro (Contributor), Johnson, Steven G (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018-06-18T14:10:05Z.
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