Three-body amplification of photon heat tunneling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Messina, Riccardo ^a   Antezza, Mauro ^b,c   Ben Abdallah, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSMISSION; EXPONENTIAL DAMPING; FAR-FIELD; NANO SCALE; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RELAY SYSTEM; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SURFACE POLARITONS; THEORETICAL LIMITS; THREE-BODY INTERACTION; UPPER LIMITS; VACUUM GAP;

ENERGY CONVERSION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84870907342     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.244302     Document Type: Article

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