Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 …

Light interaction with photonic and plasmonic resonances

P Lalanne, W Yan, K Vynck, C Sauvan… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this Review, the theory and applications of optical micro‐and nano‐resonators are
presented from the underlying concept of their natural resonances, the so‐called quasi …

Near-field thermophotovoltaic conversion with high electrical power density and cell efficiency above 14%

C Lucchesi, D Cakiroglu, JP Perez, T Taliercio… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

A review on insulation materials for energy conservation in buildings

L Aditya, TMI Mahlia, B Rismanchi, HM Ng… - … and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
In residential sector, air conditioning system takes the biggest portion of overall energy
consumption to fulfil the thermal comfort need. In addressing the issue, thermal insulation is …

Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field

K Kim, B Song, V Fernández-Hurtado, W Lee, W Jeong… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Radiative heat transfer

JC Cuevas, FJ García-Vidal - Acs Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Traditional, state-of-the-art and future thermal building insulation materials and solutions–Properties, requirements and possibilities

BP Jelle - Energy and buildings, 2011 - Elsevier
The advantages and disadvantages of the thermal building insulation materials and
solutions have been treated. Both traditional, state-of-the-art and possible materials and …

A thermal diode based on nanoscale thermal radiation

A Fiorino, D Thompson, L Zhu, R Mittapally, SA Biehs… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …