Energy transmission by photon tunneling in multilayer structures including negative index materials

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1046-1052

  Fu, C J ^a   Zhang, Z M ^a   Tanner, D B ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic; Microscale; Properties; Radiation; Thin films

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HEAT RADIATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS;

ENERGY TRANSMISSION; MICROSCALE; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIALS (NIM); PHOTON TUNNELING;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD;

EID: 27644487591     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2010495     Document Type: Article

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