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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 100, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4723713
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- DOE BES [DE-FG02-02ER45977]
- AFOSR MURI via UIUC
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In this letter, we measured the nanoscale thermal radiation between a microsphere and a substrate which were both coated with thick gold films. Although gold is highly reflective for thermal radiation, the radiative heat transfer between two gold surfaces was demonstrated to be significantly enhanced at nanoscale gaps beyond the blackbody radiation limit due to the tunneling of non-resonant evanescent waves. The measured heat transfer coefficient between two gold surfaces agreed well with theoretical prediction. At a gap d=30 nm +/- 5 nm, the heat transfer coefficient between two gold surfaces was observed to be as large as similar to 400 W/m(2).K, much greater than the blackbody radiation limit (similar to 5 W/m(2).K). (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4723713]
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