Tight bounds and the role of optical loss in polariton-mediated near-field heat transfer
arXiv:2207.01386 · doi: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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