Abstract : We study the near-field heat exchange between hyperbolic materials and demonstrate that these media are able to support broadband frustrated modes which transport heat by photon tunneling with a high efficiency close to the theoretical limit. We predict that hyperbolic materials can be designed to be perfect thermal emitters at nanoscale and derive an upper limit for the heat flux due to hyperbolic modes.
https://hal-iogs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00817517 Contributor : Philippe Ben-AbdallahConnect in order to contact the contributor Submitted on : Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 5:32:16 PM Last modification on : Friday, October 15, 2021 - 3:38:35 AM Long-term archiving on: : Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 4:13:29 AM
Svend-Age Biehs, Maria Tschikin, Philippe Ben-Abdallah. Hyperbolic Metamaterials as an Analog of a Blackbody in the Near Field. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2012, 109, pp.104301. ⟨hal-00817517⟩