3 papers
physics.app-ph2025
Ultrawhite structural starch film for sustainable cooling
Yang Liu, Andrew Caratenuto, Xuguang Zhang +4
Reducing human reliance on high-electricity-consuming cooling technologies like air conditioning is crucial for reshaping the global energy paradigm. Through utilizing natural star…
cond-mat.mes-hall2025
Normal and lateral Casimir-Lifshitz forces between a nanoparticle and a graphene grating
Minggang Luo, Youssef Jeyar, Brahim Guizal +1
We study the normal and lateral components of the Casimir-Lifshitz (CL) force between a nanoparticle and 1D graphene grating deposited on a fused silica slab. For this purpose, the…
physics.optics2024
Effect of top metallic contacts on energy conversion performances for near-field thermophotovoltaics
Youssef Jeyar, Kevin Austry, Minggang Luo +5
The design of metallic contact grids on the front side of thermophotovoltaic cells is critical since it can cause significant optical and electrical resistive losses, particularly…