Radiative heat transfer between nanostructures

By A. Volokitin, B. Persson. 2001

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We simplify the formalism of Polder and Van Hove [Phys.Rev.B 4, 3303(1971)], which was developed to calculate the heat transfer between macroscopic and nanoscale bodies of arbitrary shape, dispersive and adsorptive dielectric properties. In the non-retarded limit, at small distances between the bodies, the problem is reduced to the solution of an electrostatic problem. We apply the formalism to the study of the heat transfer between: (a) two parallel semi-infinite bodies, (b) a semi-infinite body and a spherical body, and (c) that two spherical bodies. We consider the dependence of the heat transfer on the temperature T, the shape and the separation d. We determine when retardation effects become important.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Near-Field Thermal Radiation: Recent Progress and Outlook (2015, methodology): “By introducing a nonlocal model of dielectric functions, the divergence is removed and the heat flux tends to saturate at subnanometer distances [120, 170].”
Solution of near-field thermal radiation in one-dimensional layered media using dyadic Green's functions and the scattering matrix method (2009, background): “Since then, numerical predictions of near-field radiative heat transfer between parallel surfaces with bulk emitters [19,20] and film emitter [21–23], between a dipole and a surface [24], between two dipoles [25–27], in a cylindrical cavity [28], between two large spheres [29], and between a dipole ”
Review of near‐field thermal radiation and its application to energy conversion (2009, unknown): “It should be noted that the expression of q00max differs by a factor of 2 from the expression of maximum heat flux in Volokitin and Persson [19], since the contribution from s polarization is not included here.”