ELECTRICALLY-CONTROLLED NEAR-FIELD RADIATIVE THERMAL MODULATOR

Author(s):  
Yue Yang ◽  
Liping Wang
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2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Lu ◽  
Jinlin Song ◽  
Kun Zhou ◽  
Han Ou ◽  
Qiang Cheng ◽  
...  

We show numerically the phase change material Ge3Sb2Te6 (GST) with special configuration as a heat modulator in the regime of near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT). The ability of GST to allow ultrafast reversible switch between two phases endows it great potential in practical modulation application. By designing silicon carbide (SiC) nanoholes (NHs) filled with GST, this configuration could achieve a considerable modulation effect and large near-field radiative heat flux. The underlying mechanism can be explained by the observation that the entire configuration supports either hyperbolic modes or surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) resonance modes and even the combination of both modes, thereby resulting in the remarkable modulation effect. In addition, the effects of the volume filling factor and graphene coverage are also investigated at the vacuum gap distance of 100 nm. With graphene coverage, the modulation factor can be further improved to as high as 0.72 achieved at the volume filling factor of 0.6 with temperature difference of 20 K. The proposed configuration has the potential to effectively modulate heat in the near-field regime for designing heat modulation applications in the future.


Author(s):  
E. Betzig ◽  
A. Harootunian ◽  
M. Isaacson ◽  
A. Lewis

In general, conventional methods of optical imaging are limited in spatial resolution by either the wavelength of the radiation used or by the aberrations of the optical elements. This is true whether one uses a scanning probe or a fixed beam method. The reason for the wavelength limit of resolution is due to the far field methods of producing or detecting the radiation. If one resorts to restricting our probes to the near field optical region, then the possibility exists of obtaining spatial resolutions more than an order of magnitude smaller than the optical wavelength of the radiation used. In this paper, we will describe the principles underlying such "near field" imaging and present some preliminary results from a near field scanning optical microscope (NS0M) that uses visible radiation and is capable of resolutions comparable to an SEM. The advantage of such a technique is the possibility of completely nondestructive imaging in air at spatial resolutions of about 50nm.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Gregson ◽  
John McCormick ◽  
Clive Parini

Author(s):  
Daqing Cui ◽  
Ylva Ranebo ◽  
Jeanett Low ◽  
Vincenzo Rondinella ◽  
Jinshan Pan ◽  
...  
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Author(s):  
Mondher Dhaouadi ◽  
M. Mabrouk ◽  
T. Vuong ◽  
A. Ghazel

2011 ◽  
Vol E94-B (9) ◽  
pp. 2646-2649
Author(s):  
Bum-Soo KWON ◽  
Tae-Jin JUNG ◽  
Kyun-Kyung LEE

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