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Title: Enhancement and Tunability of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Thin Plasmonic Films

Abstract

The properties of thermal radiation exchange between hot and cold objects can be strongly modified if they interact in the near field where electromagnetic coupling occurs across gaps narrower than the dominant wavelength of thermal radiation. Using a rigorous fluctuational electrodynamics approach, we predict that ultra-thin films of plasmonic materials can be used to dramatically enhance near-field heat transfer. The total spectrally integrated film-to-film heat transfer is over an order of magnitude larger than between the same materials in bulk form and also exceeds the levels achievable with polar dielectrics such as SiC. We attribute this enhancement to the significant spectral broadening of radiative heat transfer due to coupling between surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on both sides of each thin film. We show that the radiative heat flux spectrum can be further shaped by the choice of the substrate onto which the thin film is deposited. In particular, substrates supporting surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) strongly modify the heat flux spectrum owing to the interactions between SPPs on thin films and SPhPs of the substrate. The use of thin film phase change materials on polar dielectric substrates allows for dynamic switching of the heat flux spectrum between SPP-mediated and SPhP-mediated peaks

Authors:
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1594148
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-02ER45977; SC0001299; FG02-09ER46577
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Photonics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2304-6732
Publisher:
MDPI
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; near-field radiative heat transfer; fluctuation-dissipation theorem; surface plasmon polaritons; thin films; dissipative losses; non-contact cooling

Citation Formats

Boriskina, Svetlana, Tong, Jonathan, Huang, Yi, Zhou, Jiawei, Chiloyan, Vazrik, and Chen, Gang. Enhancement and Tunability of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Thin Plasmonic Films. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.3390/photonics2020659.
Boriskina, Svetlana, Tong, Jonathan, Huang, Yi, Zhou, Jiawei, Chiloyan, Vazrik, & Chen, Gang. Enhancement and Tunability of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Thin Plasmonic Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics2020659
Boriskina, Svetlana, Tong, Jonathan, Huang, Yi, Zhou, Jiawei, Chiloyan, Vazrik, and Chen, Gang. Thu . "Enhancement and Tunability of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Thin Plasmonic Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics2020659. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1594148.
@article{osti_1594148,
title = {Enhancement and Tunability of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer Mediated by Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Thin Plasmonic Films},
author = {Boriskina, Svetlana and Tong, Jonathan and Huang, Yi and Zhou, Jiawei and Chiloyan, Vazrik and Chen, Gang},
abstractNote = {The properties of thermal radiation exchange between hot and cold objects can be strongly modified if they interact in the near field where electromagnetic coupling occurs across gaps narrower than the dominant wavelength of thermal radiation. Using a rigorous fluctuational electrodynamics approach, we predict that ultra-thin films of plasmonic materials can be used to dramatically enhance near-field heat transfer. The total spectrally integrated film-to-film heat transfer is over an order of magnitude larger than between the same materials in bulk form and also exceeds the levels achievable with polar dielectrics such as SiC. We attribute this enhancement to the significant spectral broadening of radiative heat transfer due to coupling between surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on both sides of each thin film. We show that the radiative heat flux spectrum can be further shaped by the choice of the substrate onto which the thin film is deposited. In particular, substrates supporting surface phonon polaritons (SPhP) strongly modify the heat flux spectrum owing to the interactions between SPPs on thin films and SPhPs of the substrate. The use of thin film phase change materials on polar dielectric substrates allows for dynamic switching of the heat flux spectrum between SPP-mediated and SPhP-mediated peaks},
doi = {10.3390/photonics2020659},
journal = {Photonics},
number = 2,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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