The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Controlling emission and absorption, and radiative heat transfer, is important for photonic
energy conversion and thermal management. However, the reciprocal emission and …

Thermophotovoltaic approaches that take advantage of near-field evanescent modes are
being actively explored due to their potential for high-power density and high-efficiency …

A huge amount of thermal energy is available close to material surfaces in radiative and
nonradiative states, which can be useful for matter characterization or energy harvesting …

Right after the first edition was published in 2007, I was invited to give seminars at a number
of universities in several countries. At that time, many people considered nanotechnology …

Control of heat flow is critical for thermal logic devices and thermal management and has
been explored theoretically. However, experimental progress on active control of heat flow …

Collective optoelectronic phenomena such as plasmons and phonon polaritons can drive
processes in many branches of nanoscale science. Classical physics predicts that a perfect …

Energy transferred via thermal radiation between two surfaces separated by nanometer
distances can be much larger than the blackbody limit. However, realizing a scalable …

Direct conversion of heat to electricity via solid-state approaches is a rapidly advancing area
of research owing to its prospective use in recovering waste heat and in energy storage and …

Near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) arises between objects separated by nanoscale
gaps and leads to dramatic enhancements in heat transfer rates compared to the far-field …