Svend-Age Biehs et.al.: Mesoscopic Description of Radiative Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale

Author(s): Svend-Age Biehs, Emmanuele Rousseau, Jean-Jaqcues Greffet

Title:
Mesoscopic Description of Radiative Heat Transfer at the Nanoscale

Date of Upload:
2010-12-18

Article: Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 234301 (2010), The American Physical Society

Keywords: nanoscale heat radiation, landauer, quantum of thermal conductance

PACS: 44.40.+a, 73.23.-b

Abstract:
We present a formulation of the nanoscale radiative heat transfer using concepts of mesoscopic physics. We introduce the analog of the Sharvin conductance using the quantum of thermal conductance. The formalism provides a convenient framework to analyze the physics of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale. Finally, we propose a radiative heat transfer experiment in the regime of quantized conductance.

URL: http://www.condmat.uni-oldenburg.de/Biehs/pubs/p_landauer2010.pdf (text/plain)


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