Research Update

摘要

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a way to predict the behavior of unruly waves of light during na-noscale radiation-heat transfer, opening the door to the design of a spectrum of new nanode-vices and nanotechnologies, including solar thermal-energy technologies. Lead researcher Zhuomin Zhang and his team set out to study evanescent waves in nanoscale-radiation-energy transfer between two very-close surfaces at different temperatures by means of thermal radiation.