Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces
| dc.creator | Chapuis, Pierre-Olivier | |
| dc.creator | Volz, Sebastian | |
| dc.creator | Henkel, Carsten | |
| dc.creator | Joulain, Karl | |
| dc.creator | Greffet, Jean-Jacques | |
| dc.date | 2008-02-13 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:20:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:20:33Z | |
| dc.description | We study the heat transfer between two parallel metallic semi-infinite media with a gap in the nanometer-scale range. We show that the near-field radiative heat flux saturates at distances smaller than the metal skin depth when using a local dielectric constant and investigate the origin of this effect. The effect of non-local corrections is analysed using the Lindhard-Mermin and Boltzmann-Mermin models. We find that local and non-local models yield the same heat fluxes for gaps larger than 2 nm. Finally, we explain the saturation observed in a recent experiment as a manifestation of the skin depth and show that heat is mainly dissipated by eddy currents in metallic bodies. | |
| dc.description | Version without figures (8 figures in the complete version) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1899 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1899 | |
| dc.identifier | Physical Review B 77, 3 (2008) 035431 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035431 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/154758 | |
| dc.subject | Optics | |
| dc.subject | Other Condensed Matter | |
| dc.title | Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces | |
| dc.type | text |