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Nanostructures feel the heat

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The radiative heat exchange on the nanoscale can be tuned using polar dielectric nanostructures.

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Figure 1: Thermal source emitting evanescent modes.
Figure 2: Surface-polariton-mediated near-field radiative heat transfer between a bulk of silica and a film of silica coated on gold.

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Francoeur, M. Nanostructures feel the heat. Nature Nanotech 10, 206–208 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.34

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