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 …

Nonlinear heat transfer can be exploited to reveal novel transport phenomena and thus
enhance people's ability to manipulate heat flux at will. However, there has not been a …

In this work we demonstrate thermal rectification at the nanoscale between doped Si and
VO2 surfaces. Specifically, we show that the metal–insulator transition of VO2 makes it …

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 …

Developing thermal analogues of a field-effect transistor could open the door to a low-power
and even zero-power communication technology working with heat rather than electricity …

Any object with nonzero temperature emits thermal radiation described by the Stefan-
Boltzmann law, and hence, thermal conduction is always accompanied by thermal radiation …

Conduction, convection, and radiation are three basic modes of heat transfer which often
exist together. However, it is up to now a challenge to simultaneously manipulate them …

Heat shuttling phenomenon is characterized by the presence of a non-zero heat flow
between two bodies without net thermal bias on average. It was initially predicted in the …

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 …

Active control over the flow of heat in the near-field holds promise for nanoscale thermal
management, with applications in refrigeration, thermophotovoltaics, and thermal circuitry …