Radiative Thermal Runaway Due to Negative-Differential Thermal Emission Across a Solid-Solid Phase Transition

Thermal runaway occurs when a rise in system temperature results in heat-generation rates exceeding dissipation rates. Here, we demonstrate that thermal runaway occurs in radiative (photon) systems given a sufficient level of negative-differential thermal emission. By exploiting the insulator-to-met...

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Main Authors: Lenert, Andrej, Kats, Mikhail A., Zhou, You, Zhang, Shuyan, Ramanathan, Shriram, Capasso, Federico, Bierman, David Matthew, De La Ossa, Matthew F., Wang, Evelyn
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117341
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9897-2670
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7045-1200