Super-Planckian Near-Field Thermal Emission with Phonon-Polaritonic Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Svend-Age Biehs (1) , Maria Tschikin (1) , Riccardo Messina (2) , Philippe Ben-Abdallah (2)

1 Institut für Physik [Oldenburg]
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Naphel

We study super-Planckian near-field heat exchanges for multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials using exact S-matrix calculations. We investigate heat exchanges between two multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial structures. We show that the super- Planckian emission of such metamaterials can either come from the presence of surface phonon-polaritons modes or from a continuum of hyperbolic modes depending on the choice of composite materials as well as the structural configuration.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]; Electromagnetism; Other; Optics / Photonic; Thermics [physics.class-ph]; Thermics [physics.class-ph]

Svend-Age Biehs, Maria Tschikin, Riccardo Messina, Philippe Ben-Abdallah. Super-Planckian Near-Field Thermal Emission with Phonon-Polaritonic Hyperbolic Metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102 (13), pp.131106. ⟨10.1063/1.4800233⟩. ⟨hal-00817553⟩