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most citedRadiative thermal switch exploiting hyperbolic surface phonon polaritons

46 citations · 134 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Casimir radiation with Weyl semimetals

Yang Hu, Xiaohu Wu, Haotuo Liu +2

When Casimir friction torque acts upon a rotated nanoparticle (NP), mechanical energy can be transformed into thermal energy, known as Casimir radiation, which significantly affect…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Near-field radiative heat transfer between graphene-covered Weyl semimetals

Yang Hu, Xiaohu Wu, Xiuquan Huang +2

Polariton manipulations introduce novel approaches to modulate the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT). Our theoretical investigation in this study centers on NFRHT in graph…

physics.optics2024★ 38 cited

High-rectification near-field radiative thermal diode using Weyl semimetals

Yang Hu, Haotuo Liu, Bing Yang +4

Thermal diodes, which allow heat transfer in a preferential direction while being blocked in a reverse direction, have numerous applications in thermal management, information proc…

physics.app-ph2022

Actively tuning anisotropic light-matter interaction in biaxial hyperbolic material -MoO using phase change material VO and graphene

Kun Zhou, Yang Hu, Xiaoxing Zhong +1

Anisotropic hyperbolic phonon polaritons (PhPs) in natural biaxial hyperbolic material MoO has opened up new avenues for mid-infrared nanophotonics, while active tunability of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 21 cited

Negative differential thermal conductance between Weyl semimetals nanoparticles through vacuum

Yasong Sun, Yang Hu, Kezhang Shi +3

In this work, the near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between two Weyl semimetal (WSM) nanoparticles (NPs) is investigated. The numerical results show that negative differen…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Spontaneous emission modulation in biaxial hyperbolic van der Waals material

Haotuo Liu, Yang Hu, Qing Ai +2

As a natural van der Waals crystal, α-MoO3 has excellent in-plane hyperbolic properties and essential nanophotonics applications. However, its actively tunable properties are gener…

physics.optics2021

Rotation-induced significant modulation of near-field radiative heat transfer between hyperbolic nanoparticles

Yang Hu, Yasong Sun, Zhiheng Zheng +3

Modulation of near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) with rotated anisotropic hBN and MoO3 nanoparticles (NPs) are investigated. The spectral heat power, total heat power and e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 46 cited

Radiative thermal switch exploiting hyperbolic surface phonon polaritons

Annika Ott, Yang Hu, Xiao-Hu Wu +1

We study the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles in close vicinity to the natural hyperbolic material hBN with its optical axis oriented parallel to the interface. We sho…