Heat-flux control and solid-state cooling by regulating chemical potential of photons in near-field electromagnetic heat transfer

Chen, Kaifeng; Santhanam, Parthiban; Sandhu, Sunil; Zhu, Linxiao; Fan, Shanhui

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.134301

Title: Heat-flux control and solid-state cooling by regulating chemical potential of photons in near-field electromagnetic heat transfer

Journal Article · Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.134301· OSTI ID:1387274

Chen, Kaifeng ^[1]; Santhanam, Parthiban ^[1]; Sandhu, Sunil ^[1]; Zhu, Linxiao ^[1]; Fan, Shanhui ^[1]

Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

We consider near-field heat transfer with nonzero chemical potential for photons, as can occur between two semiconductor bodies, held at different temperatures with at least one of the bodies under external bias.We show that the dependence of radiative heat flux on chemical potential enables electronic control of both the direction and magnitude of near-field heat transfer between the two bodies. Moreover such a configuration can operate as a solid-state cooling device whose efficiency can approach the Carnot limit in the ideal case. Furthermore, significant cooling can also be achieved in the presence of inherent nonidealities including Auger recombination and parasitic phonon-polariton heat transfer.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1387274

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1181455

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 13; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 1098-0121

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