Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Nonreciprocal thermal photonics for energy conversion and radiative heat transfer

Z Zhang, L Zhu - Physical Review Applied, 2022‏ - APS
Controlling emission and absorption, and radiative heat transfer, is important for photonic
energy conversion and thermal management. However, the reciprocal emission and …

Remarkable heat conduction mediated by non-equilibrium phonon polaritons

Z Pan, G Lu, X Li, JR McBride, R Juneja, M Long… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Surface waves can lead to intriguing transport phenomena. In particular, surface phonon
polaritons (SPhPs), which result from coupling between infrared light and optical phonons …

Low-dimensional heat conduction in surface phonon polariton waveguide

Y Pei, L Chen, W Jeon, Z Liu, R Chen - Nature Communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Heat conduction in solids is typically governed by the Fourier's law describing a diffusion
process due to the short wavelength and mean free path for phonons and electrons. Surface …

Advanced materials for high‐temperature thermal transport

S Shin, Q Wang, J Luo, R Chen - Advanced Functional …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
High temperature processes are widely used in a variety of existing and emerging industrial
and aerospace applications. The thermal properties of high‐temperature materials thus play …

Enhanced far-field thermal radiation through a polaritonic waveguide

S Tachikawa, J Ordonez-Miranda, L Jalabert, Y Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024‏ - APS
We experimentally demonstrate the enhancement of the far-field thermal radiation between
two nonabsorbent Si microplates coated with energy-absorbent silicon dioxide (SiO 2) …

Nanoscale radiative thermal switching via multi-body effects

D Thompson, L Zhu, E Meyhofer, P Reddy - Nature nanotechnology, 2020‏ - nature.com
Control of thermal transport at the nanoscale is of great current interest for creating novel
thermal logic and energy conversion devices. Recent experimental studies have …

Deep learning for the modeling and inverse design of radiative heat transfer

JJ García-Esteban, J Bravo-Abad, JC Cuevas - Physical Review Applied, 2021‏ - APS
Deep learning is having a tremendous impact in many areas of computer science and
engineering. Motivated by this success, deep neural networks are attracting increasing …

Long propagating polaritonic heat transfer: Sha** radiation to conduction

S Li, J Wang, Y Wen, S Shin - ACS nano, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) originate from the coupling of mid-IR photons and
optical phonons, generating evanescent waves along the polar dielectric surface. The …

Review on the scientific and technological breakthroughs in thermal emission engineering

JE Vázquez-Lozano, I Liberal - ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The emission of thermal radiation is a physical process of fundamental and technological
interest. From different approaches, thermal radiation can be regarded as one of the basic …