Colossal Enhancement of Near-Field Thermal Radiation Across Hundreds of Nanometers between Millimeter-Scale Plates through Surface Plasmon and Phonon Polaritons Coupling

Coupling modes between surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) play a vital role in enhancing near-field thermal radiation but are relatively unexplored, and no experimental result is available. Here, we consider the NFTR enhancement between two identical graphene-cov...

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Published in:Nano letters 2019-11, Vol.19 (11), p.8082-8088
Main Authors: Shi, Kezhang, Sun, Yongcheng, Chen, Zhaoyang, He, Nan, Bao, Fanglin, Evans, Julian, He, Sailing
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
energy transmission coefficient
fluctuational electrodynamics
graphene-SiO2 heterostructure
nanoscale heat transfer measurement
near-field thermal radiation
surface plasmon and phonon polaritons coupling
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Summary:Coupling modes between surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) play a vital role in enhancing near-field thermal radiation but are relatively unexplored, and no experimental result is available. Here, we consider the NFTR enhancement between two identical graphene-covered SiO2 heterostructures with millimeter-scale surface area and report an experimentally record-breaking ∼64-fold enhancement compared to blackbody (BB) limit at a gap distance of 170 nm. The energy transmission coefficient and radiation spectra show that the physical mechanism behind the colossal enhancement is the coupling between the surface plasmon and phonon polaritons.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03269