Effects of spatial dispersion in near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel metallic surfaces

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2008-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/0802.1899v1

Physical Review B 77, 3 (2008) 035431

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Optics

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Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.77.035431

We study the heat transfer between two parallel metallic semi-infinite media with a gap in the nanometer-scale range. We show that the near-field radiative heat flux saturates at distances smaller than the metal skin depth when using a local dielectric constant and investigate the origin of this effect. The effect of non-local corrections is analysed using the Lindhard-Mermin and Boltzmann-Mermin models. We find that local and non-local models yield the same heat fluxes for gaps larger than 2 nm. Finally, we explain the saturation observed in a recent experiment as a manifestation of the skin depth and show that heat is mainly dissipated by eddy currents in metallic bodies.

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