Direct conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state approaches is a rapidly advancing area
of research owing to its prospective use in recovering waste heat and in energy storage and …

Thermal emission is typically associated with a blackbody at a temperature above absolute
zero, which exchanges energy with its environment in the form of radiation. Blackbody …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

Recent experiments,,, have demonstrated that radiative heat transfer between objects
separated by nanometre-scale gaps considerably exceeds the predictions of far-field …

Radiative thermal transport via the fluctuating electromagnetic near-field has recently
attracted increasing attention due to its fundamental importance and its impact on a range of …

Radiative heat transfer rates that exceed the blackbody limit by several orders of magnitude
are expected when the gap size between plane parallel surfaces is reduced to the …

Nano optics combines the research areas of optics and nanoscience. Through light we
acquire information about the world around us, and the controlled manipulation of light forms …

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between planar metallic surfaces was
computationally explored over five decades ago by Polder and van Hove [Phys. Rev. B 4 …

We theoretically demonstrate workings of a near-field thermal rectification device that uses a
phase change material to achieve asymmetry in radiative heat transfer. We exploit the …

Evanescent waves induced by thermal fluctuations can tunnel through nanoscale gap
spacing, leading to super-Planckian thermal radiation. However, investigations of near-field …