Extraordinary coherent thermal emission from Sic due to coupled resonant cavities

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Dahan, Nir ^a   Niv, Avi ^a   Biener, Gabriel ^a   Gorodetski, Yuri ^a   Kleiner, Vladimir ^a   Hasman, Erez ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coherence; Resonators; Surface waves; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DIVERGENCE; ANISOTROPIC MICROSTRUCTURES; COHERENCE; COHERENT COUPLING; COHERENT THERMAL EMISSION; COUPLED RESONANT CAVITIES; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFRARED SOURCE; LOCALIZED FIELD; MATERIAL'S SURFACE; MICRO AND NANOSTRUCTURES; QUALITY FACTORS; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; RESONANT CAVITY; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SENSING DEVICES; SPATIAL COHERENCE LENGTH; SURFACE PHONON-POLARITONS; SURFACE STANDING WAVES; THERMAL EMISSIONS; THERMAL SOURCE;

CAVITY RESONATORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; MICROSTRUCTURE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; SENSORS; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACE WAVES; VACUUM DEPOSITION; WATER WAVES;

SURFACES;

EID: 77955257857     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2955475     Document Type: Article

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