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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14479
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- DOE-BES [DE-SC0004871]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-16-1-2672]
- Spanish MINECO [FIS2014-53488-P, MAT2014-53432-C5-5-R]
- Comunidad de Madrid [S2013/MIT-2740]
- DFG [SFB 767]
- European Research Council (ERC-AdG) [290981]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG-618229]
- 'la Caixa' Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0004871] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Radiative heat transfer in angstrom ngstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps is of great interest because of both its technological importance and open questions regarding the physics of energy transfer in this regime. Here we report studies of radiative heat transfer in few angstrom 5nm gap sizes, performed under ultrahigh vacuum conditions between a Au-coated probe featuring embedded nanoscale thermocouples and a heated planar Au substrate that were both subjected to various surface-cleaning procedures. By drawing on the apparent tunnelling barrier height as a signature of cleanliness, we found that upon systematically cleaning via a plasma or locally pushing the tip into the substrate by a few nanometres, the observed radiative conductances decreased from unexpectedly large values to extremely small ones-below the detection limit of our probe-as expected from our computational results. Our results show that it is possible to avoid the confounding effects of surface contamination and systematically study thermal radiation in angstrom ngstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps.
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