Nonreciprocal thermal photonics

S Yang, M Liu, C Zhao, S Fan, CW Qiu - Nature photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Thermal nanophotonics has undergone a revolution in recent decades, benefiting from in-
depth studies in nano-optics and breakthroughs in nanotechnologies. The majority of …

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 …

Near-field radiative heat transfer in many-body systems

SA Biehs, R Messina, PS Venkataram… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Many-body physics aims to understand emergent properties of systems made of many
interacting objects. This review examines recent progress on the topic of radiative heat …

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 …

Radiative heat transfer

JC Cuevas, FJ García-Vidal - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermal radiation is one of the most universal physical phenomena, and its study has
played a key role in the history of modern physics. Our understanding of this subject has …

High-rectification near-field radiative thermal diode using Weyl semimetals

Y Hu, H Liu, B Yang, K Shi, M Antezza, X Wu… - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
Thermal diodes, which allow heat transfer in a preferential direction while being blocked in a
reverse direction, have numerous applications in thermal management, information …

Radiative thermal router based on tunable magnetic Weyl semimetals

C Guo, B Zhao, D Huang, S Fan - Acs Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
We theoretically propose and numerically demonstrate a radiative thermal router based on
magnetic Weyl semimetals. In designing the thermal router, we utilize two unique properties …

Radiative thermal diode driven by nonreciprocal surface waves

A Ott, R Messina, P Ben-Abdallah, SA Biehs - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the possibility to rectify the nanoscale radiative heat flux between two
nanoparticles by coupling them with the nonreciprocal surface modes of a magneto-optical …

Many-body near-field radiative heat transfer: methods, functionalities and applications

J Song, Q Cheng, B Zhang, L Lu, X Zhou… - Reports on Progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) governed by evanescent waves, provides a
platform to thoroughly understand the transport behavior of nonradiative photons, and also …

Solid‐state thermal control devices

T Swoboda, K Klinar, AS Yalamarthy… - Advanced electronic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, solid‐state thermal control devices have emerged as potential
candidates for enhanced thermal management and storage. They distinguish themselves …