Harvesting Nanoscale Thermal Radiation Using Pyroelectric Materials

Purified and porous poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) thin films for pyroelectric infrared sensing and energy harvesting

(2010) A Navid et al.   Smart Materials and Structures

Breakdown of the Planck blackbody radiation law at nanoscale gaps

(2009) Arvind Narayanaswamy et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING

Near-field radiative heat transfer between two plane surfaces with one having a dielectric coating

(2009) C.J. Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER

Surface Phonon Polaritons Mediated Energy Transfer between Nanoscale Gaps

(2009) Sheng Shen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Near-field thermal radiation between two closely spaced glass plates exceeding Planck’s blackbody radiation law

(2008) Lu Hu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Near-field thermal imaging of nanostructured surfaces

(2008) A. Kittel et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Near-field radiative heat transfer enhancement via surface phonon polaritons coupling in thin films

(2008) Mathieu Francoeur et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Simulations of a prototypical device using pyroelectric materials for harvesting waste heat

(2008) Damien Vanderpool et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Near-field radiative heat transfer between a sphere and a substrate

(2008) Arvind Narayanaswamy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Improving the efficiency of pyroelectric conversion

(2007) Lia Kouchachvili et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESEARCH