Mesoscopic Description of Radiative Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale

2010/12/01 by Svend‐Age Biehs, Svend-Age Biehs, Emmanuel Rousseau +2 · 4 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Condensed matter physics #Conductance #Conductance quantum #Formalism (music) #Heat transfer #Materials science #Mesoscopic physics #Nanoscopic scale #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Quantum point contact #Quantum well #Radiant heat #Radiative transfer #Thermal #Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies #Thermal conductivity #Thermal radiation #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.mes-hall #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.105.234301

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 234301 (2010)

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Abstract

We present a formulation of the nanoscale radiative heat transfer using concepts of mesoscopic physics. We introduce the analog of the Sharvin conductance using the quantum of thermal conductance. The formalism provides a convenient framework to analyze the physics of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale. Finally, we propose a radiative heat transfer experiment in the regime of quantized conductance.

Citations

• Quantum properties of atomic-sized conductors
• Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces

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