Article Dans Une Revue Discover Nano Année : 2025

Focusing surface phonon-polaritons for tunable thermal radiation

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We demonstrate unprecedented control and enhancement of thermal radiation using subwavelength conical membranes of silicon nitride. Based on fluctuational electrodynamics, we find that the focusing of surface phonon-polaritons along these membranes enhances their far-field thermal conductance by three orders of magnitude over the blackbody limit. Our calculations reveal a non-monotonic dependence of the thermal conductance on membrane geometry, with a characteristic radiation plateau emerging at small front widths due to competing effects of the polariton focusing and radiative area. The obtained results thus introduce the conical geometry as a powerful degree of freedom for tailoring thermal radiation, with potential implications for energy harvesting and thermal management at the nanoscale.
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hal-04909693 , version 1 (24-01-2025)

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Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Masahiro Nomura, Sebastian Volz. Focusing surface phonon-polaritons for tunable thermal radiation. Discover Nano, 2025, 20 (1), pp.15. ⟨10.1186/s11671-025-04191-0⟩. ⟨hal-04909693⟩
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