Near-field thermal radiative transfer between two coated spheres

Abstract

In this work, we present an expression for the near-field thermal radiative transfer between two spheres with an arbitrary numbers of coatings. We numerically demonstrate that the spectrum of heat transfer between layered spheres exhibits novel features due to the newly introduced interfaces between coatings and cores. These features include broad super-Planckian peaks at non-resonant frequencies and near-field selective emission between metallic spheres with polar material coatings. Spheres with cores and coatings of two different polar materials are also shown to exceed the total conductance of homogeneous spheres in some cases.

Final version of paper following peer review: some content was moved from main body of text to appendices but results are unchanged

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