New insights into the behaviour of radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale have now been made, thanks to highly precise measurements made using scanning probe microscopy.
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Kittel, A. Probing near-field thermal radiation. Nature Photon 3, 492–494 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.151
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