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Tight Bounds and the Role of Optical Loss in Polariton-Mediated Near-Field Heat Transfer

Mariano Pascale and Georgia T. Papadakis*

  • ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona 08860, Spain

  • *Georgia.Papadakis@icfo.eu
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Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 034013 – Published 3 March, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.034013

Abstract

We introduce an analytical framework for near-field radiative heat transfer in bulk plasmonic and polar media. Considering material dispersion, we derive a closed-form expression for the radiative thermal conductance, which disentangles the role of optical loss from other material dispersion characteristics, such as the spectral width of the Reststrahlen band in polar dielectrics, as well as from the temperature. We provide a universal condition for maximizing heat transfer that defines the optimal interplay between a material’s optical loss and polariton resonance frequency, based on which we introduce tight bounds to near-field heat transfer. With this formalism, one can quantitatively evaluate all polaritonic materials in terms of their performance as near-field thermal emitters.

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Correction: A byline footnote giving contact information was incorrectly provided for the first author rather than for the second author and has now been rectified.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 034013– Published 3 March, 2023
  • Received 22 June 2022
  • Revised 8 February 2023
  • Accepted 9 February 2023
  • Corrected 21 June 2023
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