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SUBMITTER: Bernardi MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5056409 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bernardi Michael P MP Milovich Daniel D Francoeur Mathieu M
Nature communications 20160929
Using Rytov's fluctuational electrodynamics framework, Polder and Van Hove predicted that radiative heat transfer between planar surfaces separated by a vacuum gap smaller than the thermal wavelength exceeds the blackbody limit due to tunnelling of evanescent modes. This finding has led to the conceptualization of systems capitalizing on evanescent modes such as thermophotovoltaic converters and thermal rectifiers. Their development is, however, limited by the lack of devices enabling radiative ...[more]