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most citedThin-film radiative thermal diode with large rectification

34 citations · 90 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Remote epitaxy beyond polarity

Ching-Tai Fu, Pei-Jan Hung, Xudong Li +21

Remote epitaxy through a monolayer two-dimensional material-covered substrate establishes a crystallographic registry across the van der Waals (vdW) surface that enables the epitax…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Crossover Dynamics of Non-Fickian Ionic Diffusion in Solids

Gangbin Yan, Pierfrancesco Ombrini, Zhichu Tang +14

Ionic diffusion in solids is central to energy storage, electronics, and catalysis, yet its chemical origins are difficult to resolve because conventional diffusion models struggle…

physics.optics2025

Spectrally-selective dynamic radiative thermoregulation via phase engineering

Qizhang Li, Yuanke Chen, Zhuang Luo +10

Maintaining comfortable temperatures for buildings, humans, and devices consumes a substantial portion of global energy, underscoring the urgent need for energy-efficient thermoreg…

physics.optics2025★ 6 cited

High-efficiency broadband active metasurfaces via reversible metal electrodeposition

Qizhang Li, Sachin Prashant Kulkarni, Chenxi Sui +9

Realizing active metasurfaces with substantial tunability is important for many applications but remains challenging due to difficulties in dynamically tuning light-matter interact…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 8 cited

Fundamental limit to the rectification of near-field heat flow: The potential of intrinsic semiconductor films

Qizhang Li, Qun Chen, Bai Song

We derive the fundamental limit to near-field radiative thermal rectification mediated by an intrinsic semiconductor film within the framework of fluctuational electrodynamics. By…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 22 cited

Giant radiative thermal rectification using an intrinsic semiconductor film

Qizhang Li, Qun Chen, Bai Song

Rectification of heat flow via a thermal diode is not only of fundamental interest, but can also enable a range of novel applications in thermal management and energy conversion. H…

physics.optics2021★ 20 cited

Radiative thermal diode via hyperbolic metamaterials

Qizhang Li, Haiyu He, Qun Chen +1

Hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs) support propagating waves with arbitrarily large wavevectors over broad spectral ranges, and are uniquely valuable for engineering radiative thermal…

physics.app-ph2021★ 34 cited

Thin-film radiative thermal diode with large rectification

Qizhang Li, Haiyu He, Qun Chen +1

We propose a mechanism to substantially rectify radiative heat flow by matching thin films of metal-to-insulator transition materials and polar dielectrics in the electromagnetic n…