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The Planck theory of blackbody radiation imposes a limit on the maximum radiative transfer between two objects at given temperatures. When the two objects are close enough, near-field effects due to tunneling of evanescent waves lead to enhancement of radiative transfer above the Planck limit. When the objects can support electromagnetic surface polaritons, the enhancement can be a few orders-of-magnitude larger than the blackbody limit. In this paper, we summarize our recent measurements of radiative transfer between two parallel silica surfaces and between a silica microsphere and a flat silica surface that show unambiguous evidence of enhancement of radiative transfer due to near-field effects above the Planck limit.
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Narayanaswamy, A., Shen, S., Hu, L. et al. Breakdown of the Planck blackbody radiation law at nanoscale gaps. Appl. Phys. A 96, 357–362 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5203-5
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