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Superballistic transport of thermal photons in confined many-body systems
Jian Dong, Junming Zhao, Philippe Ben-Abdallah +1
Ballistic transport, realized when the system size is smaller than the mean free path of energy carriers, is traditionally regarded as the ultimate limit for energy transfer. Here,…
Favorable and unfavorable many-body interactions for near-field radiative heat transfer in nanoparticle networks
Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu +1
Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) in nanoparticle networks is complicated due to the multiple scattering of thermally excited electromagnetic wave (namely, many-body inter…
Many-body interaction on near-field radiative heat transfer between two nanoparticles caused by proximate particle ensembles
Baokun Liu, Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao +2
Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) has received growing attention because of its high intensity far beyond the Planck's black-body limit. Insertion of a third object in pro…
Extinction by plasmonic nanoparticles in dispersive and dissipative media
Shangyu Zhang, Jian Dong, Wenjie Zhang +2
Extinction of small metallic spheres has been well understood through the classical Mie theory when the host medium is dispersive and transparent. However, the role of host dissipa…
Residual surface charge mediated near-field radiative energy transfer: A topological insulator analog
Minggang Luo, Jiaqi Zhu, S. -A. Biehs +2
We study the modifications of near-field radiative energy transfer (NFRET) caused by residual surface charges, which are common in micro- and nano-systems like NEMS/MEMS. The host…
Photonic p-n Junction: An Ideal Near-Field Heat Flux Modulator
Deyu Xu, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
Using a pair of p- and n-type semiconductors separated by a nanoscale vacuum gap, we introduce an optoelectronics element prototype, "photonic p-n junction", as an analogue of the…
Photothermal behavior for two-dimensional nanoparticle ensembles: Multiple scattering and thermal accumulation effects
Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu +1
Light-assisted micro-nanoscale temperature control in complex nanoparticle network attracts lots of research interests. Many efforts have been put on the optical properties of the…
Near-field radiation assisted smart skin for spacecraft thermal control
Deyu Xu, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
Thermal control is of critical importance for normal operation of spacecraft. Given thermal radiation is the only means of heat dissipation in space, an efficient thermal control a…
Normal heat diffusion in many-body system via thermal photons
Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
A normal-diffusion theory for heat transfer in many-body systems via carriers of thermal photons is developed. The thermal conductivity tensor is rigorously derived from fluctuatio…
Many-body effective thermal conductivity in phase-change nanoparticle chains due to near-field radiative heat transfer
Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu +2
In dense systems composed of numerous nanoparticles, direct simulations of near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) require considerable computational resources. NFRHT for the si…
Radiative heat transfer and radiative thermal energy for 2D nanoparticle ensembles
Minggang Luo, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu +1
Radiative heat transfer (RHT) and radiative thermal energy (RTE) for 2D nanoparticle ensembles are investigated in the framework of many-body radiative heat transfer theory. We con…
Continuum approach based on radiation distribution function for radiative heat transfer in densely packed particulate system
Baokun Liu, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
The study of radiative heat transfer in particulate system is usually based on radiative transfer equation (RTE) with effective radiative properties. However, for non-random, dense…
Near-field radiative heat transfer between rough surfaces modeled using effective media with gradient distribution of dielectric function
Deyu Xu, Ahamed Bilal, Junming Zhao +2
Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between rough surfaces, due to its widespread presence in engineering practice of near-field energy utilization, requires indepth studies…
Radiative heat transfer between metallic nanoparticle clusters in both near field and far field
Minggang Luo, Jian Dong, Junming Zhao +2
Micro-nanoparticle systems have wide applications in thermal science and technology. In dense particulate system, the particle separation distance may be less than the characterist…
Long-distance near-field energy transport via propagating surface waves
Jian Dong, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
Near-field radiative heat transfer (RHT) between two bodies can significantly exceed the far-field limit set by Planck's law due to the evanescent wave tunneling, which typically c…
Radiative heat transfer in many-body systems: coupled electric and magnetic dipole approach
Jian Dong, Junming Zhao, Linhua Liu
The many-body radiative heat transfer theory [P. Ben-Abdallah, S.-A. Biehs, and K. Joulain, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 114301 (2011)] only considered the contribution from the electric…
Improved transmission method for measuring the optical extinction coefficient of micro/nano particle suspensions
X. C. Li, J. M. Zhao, C. C. Wang +1
Extinction coefficient is fundamental to analyze radiative transport in micro/nano particle suspensions. In the traditional transmission method for measuring the extinction coeffic…
Monte Carlo method for polarized radiative transfer in gradient-index media
J. M. Zhao, J. Y. Tan, L. H. Liu
Light transfer in gradient-index media generally follows curved ray trajectories, which will cause light beam to converge or diverge during transfer and induce the rotation of pola…
A Deficiency Problem of the Least Squares Finite Element Method for Solving Radiative Transfer in Strongly Inhomogeneous Media
J. M. Zhao, J. Y. Tan, L. H. Liu
The accuracy and stability of the least squares finite element method (LSFEM) and the Galerkin finite element method (GFEM) for solving radiative transfer in homogeneous and inhomo…
On the Derivation of Vector Radiative Transfer Equation for Polarized Radiative Transport in Graded Index Media
J. M. Zhao, J. Y. Tan, L. H. Liu
Light transport in graded index media follows a curved trajectory determined by the Fermat's principle. Besides the effect of variation of the refractive index on the transport of…
A Second Order Radiative Transfer Equation and Its Solution by Meshless Method with Application to Strongly Inhomogeneous Media
J. M. Zhao, J. Y. Tan, L. H. Liu
A new second order form of radiative transfer equation (named MSORTE) is proposed, which overcomes the singularity problem of a previously proposed second order radiative transfer…