Super-Planckian near-field thermal emission with phonon-polaritonic hyperbolic metamaterials

By Svend‐Age Biehs, M. Tschikin, R. Messina, P. Ben-Abdallah. 2013

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We study super-Planckian near-field heat exchanges for multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials using exact scattering-matrix (S-matrix) calculations. We investigate heat exchanges between two multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial structures. We show that the super-Planckian emission of such metamaterials can either come from the presence of surface phonon-polariton modes or from a continuum of hyperbolic modes depending on the choice of composite materials as well as the structural configuration.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry

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