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., Miller, Owen D., Rodriguez, Alejandro, Johnson, Steven G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116355
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2745-2392
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4967