The concept of metamaterials originates from the proposal of left-hand materials with
negative refractive index, followed by which, varieties of metamaterials with kinds of fantastic …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 …

Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Thermal emission is a ubiquitous and fundamental process by which all objects at non-zero
temperatures radiate electromagnetic energy. This process is often assumed to be …

A huge amount of thermal energy is available close to material surfaces in radiative and
nonradiative states, which can be useful for matter characterization or energy harvesting …

Controlling emission and absorption, and radiative heat transfer, is important for photonic
energy conversion and thermal management. However, the reciprocal emission and …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Radiative transfer of energy at the nanometre length scale is of great importance to a variety
of technologies including heat-assisted magnetic recording, near-field thermophotovoltaics …

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 …