Enhancing far-field thermal emission with thermal extraction

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yu, Zongfu ^a   Sergeant, Nicholas P ^a   Skauli, Torbjørn ^a,b   Zhang, Gang ^c,d   Wang, Hailiang ^e   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CARBON; COOLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; LIGHT EFFECT; RADIATION BALANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; IMMERSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; RADIATION; THERMAL EXPOSURE; THERMAL EXTRACTION; THERMAL RADIATION;

EID: 84877737312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2765     Document Type: Article

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