Heat and Light at the Nanoscale: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 5661
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, there have been great advances in controlling heat and light using micro- and nanostructures both related to fundamentals and in applications. The strong light–matter interaction at the nanoscale provides versatile ways for tailoring heat and light, with applications ranging from energy conversion, thermal management, communication, and to sensing. Novel control of thermal radiation has been achieved using innovative materials and mechanisms, such as meta-surfaces, 2D materials, quantum materials, epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, phase-change materials, and topological effects as well as machine learning. Numerous breakthroughs have also occurred in the field of near-field radiative heat transfer. There is significant interest in exploring the cold outer space as a thermodynamic resource through radiative cooling. The marriage of optoelectronic devices and nanophotonics points to emerging thermodynamic machines such as thermophotovoltaics and photonic refrigeration. Developing nonreciprocal emitters points to a fundamental pathway for improving energy conversion processes. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, communications, and review articles that focus on (1) novel materials, structures, mechanisms for emitting, guiding, focusing, absorbing, and detecting heat and light; and (2) new developments of applying thermal radiation and radiative heat transfer in energy conversion, thermal management, communication, and sensing.
I look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Linxiao Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emitters and absorbers with quantum materials, 2D materials, meta-surfaces, ENZ materials, phase-change materials, topological effects etc.
- near-field radiative heat transfer
- nonreciprocal emitters and absorbers: magnetization, time-modulation, nonlinearity
- radiative cooling
- cooling textiles
- thermophotovoltaics
- electroluminescent cooling
- thermophotonics
- solar absorbers
- thermal diode
- thermal switch
- thermal transistor
- machine learning for thermal emitter and radiative heat transfer
