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Orientation effects on near-field radiative heat transfer between complex-shaped dielectric particles

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 121, Issue 18, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0116828

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  1. National Science Foundation [CBET-1952210]
  2. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-1747505]
  3. Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah

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This study investigates the orientation effects on near-field radiative heat transfer between SiO2 superellipsoid particles. The results show that the conductance can vary up to two times between different orientations. The orientation effects are strongly correlated with the vacuum gap distance between particles. This research is crucial for understanding radiative transport between particles with non-regular geometries.
The effect of orientation on near-field radiative heat transfer between two complex-shaped superellipsoid particles of SiO2 is presented. The particles under study are 50 nm in radius and of variable concavity. Orientation is characterized by the degree of rotational symmetry in the two-particle systems, and the radiative conductance is calculated using the discrete system Green's function approach to account for all electromagnetic interactions. The results reveal that the total conductance in some orientations can be up to twice that of other orientations when particles are at a center-of-mass separation distance of 110 nm. Orientation effects are not significantly correlated with system rotational symmetries but are strongly correlated with the minimum vacuum gap distance between particles. As such, orientation effects on near-field radiative heat transfer are a consequence of particle topology, with more extreme topologies leading to a continuation of orientation effects at larger particle center-of-mass separation distances. The concave superellipsoid particles display significant orientation effects up to a center-of-mass separation distance approximately equal to 3.9 times the particle radius, while the convex superellipsoid particles display significant orientation effects up to a center-of-mass separation distance approximately equal to 3.2 times the particle radius. In contrast to previous anisotropic, spheroidal dipole studies, these results of complex-shaped superellipsoid particles suggest that orientation effects become negligible when heat transfer is a volumetric process for all orientations. This work is essential for understanding radiative transport between particles that have non-regular geometries or that may have geometrical defects or abnormalities. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

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