With increasing interest in nanotechnology, the question arises of how heat is exchanged
between materials separated by only a few nanometers of vacuum. Here, we present …

Heat transfer in solids is typically conducted through either electrons or atomic vibrations
known as phonons. In a vacuum, heat has long been thought to be transferred by radiation …

When the separation of two surfaces approaches sub-nanometre scale, the boundary
between the two most fundamental heat transfer modes, heat conduction by phonons and …

Heat transfer between two surfaces separated by a nanometre gap is important for a number
of applications ranging from spaced head disk systems, scanning thermal microscopy and …

In vacuum, thermal energy is transported by photons (thermal radiation) but not phonons.
Recent studies, however, indicated that phonon heat transfer across a vacuum gap is …

Heat exchange between closely positioned bodies has become an important issue for such
areas of modern technology as integrated circuits, atomic force microscopy, and high …

Phonons (collective atomic vibrations in solids) are more effective in transporting heat than
photons. This is the reason why the conduction mode of heat transport in nonmetals …

Heat is transferred by radiation between two well-separated bodies at temperatures of finite
difference in vacuum. At large distances the heat transfer can be described by black body …

Phonon transport across a vacuum gap separating intrinsic silicon crystals is predicted via
the three-dimensional atomistic Green's function method combined with first-principles …

The natural transition from the radiative regime to the conductive regime of heat transfer
between two identical isotropic nonmagnetic dielectric solid materials is questioned by …