Review of near‐field thermal radiation and its application to energy conversion
By S. Basu, Zhuomin M. Zhang, C. Fu. 2009
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Understanding energy transfer via near‐field thermal radiation is critical for the future advances of nanotechnology. Evanescent waves and photon tunneling are responsible for the near‐field energy transfer being several orders of magnitude greater than that between two blackbodies. The enhanced energy transfer may be used for improving the performance of energy conversion devices, developing novel nanofabrication techniques, and imaging nanostructures with higher spatial resolution. Near‐field heat transfer can be analyzed using fluctuational electrodynamics. This article reviews the fundamentals of near‐field radiation and outlines the recent advances in this field. Important results are presented for near‐field energy transfer between parallel plates and between multilayered structures. Application of near‐field thermal radiation in near‐field thermophotovoltaic devices is also discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering
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- Solar thermophotovoltaics: reshaping the solar spectrum (2016, background): “Thus, near-field power conversion is a potential strategy to enhance the output of TPV systems [81, 96].”
- Near-Field Thermal Radiation: Recent Progress and Outlook (2015, background): “Near-field thermal radiation, in which the radiative heat transfer can be increased to exceed the far-field blackbody limit predicted by Planck’s law, holds great potential in enhancing the TPV performance by bringing the TPV emitter to close proximity of the cell within nanometer vacuum gaps [17].”
- Controlling macroscopic heat transfer with thermal metamaterials: Theory, experiment and application (2021, background): “This behavior just corresponds to enhanced near-field radiative heat transfer [171].”
- Thermal Impacts on the Performance of Nanoscale-Gap Thermophotovoltaic Power Generators (2011, background): “At subwavelength distances, radiation heat transfer is in the near-field regime, such that the energy exchanges can exceed the values predicted for blackbodies due to the contribution from evanescent waves [7]–[ 10 ].”
- Thermal Photonics and Energy Applications (2017, unknown): “Many exciting applications of near-field thermal radiation can be found in reviews such as that by Basu et al.(3)”