Enhancement and Saturation of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer in Nanogaps between Metallic Surfaces

Rincón-García, Laura; Thompson, Dakotah; Mittapally, Rohith; Agraït, Nicolás; Meyhofer, Edgar; Reddy, Pramod

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.129.145901

Title: Enhancement and Saturation of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer in Nanogaps between Metallic Surfaces

Journal Article · Thu Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.129.145901· OSTI ID:1980328

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Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain); IMDEA Nanosciencia, Madrid (Spain)

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) between planar metallic surfaces was computationally explored over five decades ago by Polder and van Hove [Phys. Rev. B 4, 3303 (1971)]. These studies predicted that, as the gap size (d) between the surfaces decreased, the radiative heat flux first increases by several orders of magnitude until d is ~100 nm after which the heat flux saturates. However, despite both the fundamental and practical importance of these predictions, the combined enhancement and saturation of NFRHT at small gaps in metallic surfaces remains experimentally unverified. Here, we probe NFRHT between planar metallic (Pt, Au) surfaces and show that RHT rates can exceed the far-field rate by over a thousand times when d is reduced to ~25 nm. More importantly, we show that for small values of d RHT saturates due to the dominant contributions from transverse electric evanescent modes. Finally, our results are in excellent agreement with the predictions of fluctuational electrodynamics and are expected to inform the development of technologies such as near-field thermophotovoltaics, radiative heat-assisted magnetic recording, and nanolithography.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); US Army Research Office (ARO); Spain Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (MECD); Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0004871; MURI W911NF-19-1-0279; FPU14/03368; EST17/00274; PID2020–114880 GB-I00

OSTI ID:: 1980328

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 129, Issue 14; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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