Direct calculation of energy streamlines in near-field thermal radiation

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1149-1155

  Basu, S ^a,b   Wang, L P ^a   Zhang, Z M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Assembly Technology Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy streamlines; Fluctuational electrodynamics; Near field thermal radiation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; DIRECT CALCULATION; ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY PROPAGATION; ENERGY STREAMLINES; FLUCTUATIONAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; LATERAL SHIFTS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NANOSCALE THERMAL RADIATION; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD THERMAL RADIATION; PARALLEL PLATES; THERMAL RADIATIONS; VACUUM GAP;

ENERGY CONVERSION; HEAT RADIATION; SURFACE WAVES; VACUUM;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY FLOW; PREDICTION; SENSOR; SURFACE WAVE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 79952532601     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.08.027     Document Type: Article

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