Applications and challenges of thermoplasmonics

G Baffou, F Cichos, R Quidant - Nature Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of plasmonic
nanoparticles as sources of heat remotely controlled by light, giving rise to the field of …

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 …

[BOOK][B] Nano/microscale heat transfer

ZM Zhang, ZM Zhang, Luby - 2007 - Springer
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 …

Near-field thermophotovoltaics for efficient heat to electricity conversion at high power density

R Mittapally, B Lee, L Zhu, A Reihani, JW Lim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermophotovoltaic approaches that take advantage of near-field evanescent modes are
being actively explored due to their potential for high-power density and high-efficiency …

Thermoplasmonics in solar energy conversion: materials, nanostructured designs, and applications

B Yang, C Li, Z Wang, Q Dai - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The indispensable requirement for sustainable development of human society has forced
almost all countries to seek highly efficient and cost‐effective ways to harvest and convert …

Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities

SV Boriskina, TA Cooper, L Zeng, G Ni… - Advances in Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Unlike conventional optics, plasmonics enables unrivaled concentration of optical energy
well beyond the diffraction limit of light. However, a significant part of this energy is …

Integrated near-field thermo-photovoltaics for heat recycling

GR Bhatt, B Zhao, S Roberts, I Datta, A Mohanty… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Energy transferred via thermal radiation between two surfaces separated by nanometer
distances can be much larger than the blackbody limit. However, realizing a scalable …

Near-field radiative heat transfer between parallel structures in the deep subwavelength regime

R St-Gelais, L Zhu, S Fan, M Lipson - Nature nanotechnology, 2016 - nature.com
Thermal radiation between parallel objects separated by deep subwavelength distances
and subject to large thermal gradients (> 100 K) can reach very high magnitudes, while …

Precision measurement of phonon-polaritonic near-field energy transfer between macroscale planar structures under large thermal gradients

M Ghashami, H Geng, T Kim, N Iacopino, SK Cho… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Despite its strong potentials in emerging energy applications, near-field thermal radiation
between large planar structures has not been fully explored in experiments. Particularly, it is …

Graphene-based photovoltaic cells for near-field thermal energy conversion

R Messina, P Ben-Abdallah - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Thermophotovoltaic devices are energy-conversion systems generating an electric current
from the thermal photons radiated by a hot body. While their efficiency is limited in far field by …