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Advances in thermal polaritonics
This collection of articles aims to showcase the latest research and trends on thermal radiation and heat conduction driven by surface phonon-polaritons and surface plasmon-polaritons at nano and microscales. The collection covers the full spectrum of theoretical, computational, and experimental advances in fundamental, applied, and interdisciplinary research topics on polaritonic heat transport. Special emphasis will be given to the size effects on the conductive and radiative heat transfer in systems with dimensions comparable to or smaller than the propagation distances of polaritons. We welcome original research articles, reviews, and perspectives involving polar dielectrics, metals, 2D materials, and any other polaritonic material. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure their quality and relevance.
Keywords:
Polaritonic heat transfer; Surface phonon-polaritons; Surface plasmon-polaritons; Conductive size effects; Radiative size effects; ThermopolaritonicsEditors
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Masahiro Nomura
Professor Masahiro Nomura, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Masahiro Nomura is a Deputy Director and Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 2005. His current research interests include hybrid quantum science, physics and control technology of phonon/heat transport in semiconductor nanostructures, radiative heat transfer, and thermoelectric energy harvesting. The concept of his current research is "from photonics to phononics" using phononic crystals, which have some physical analogies with photonic crystals.
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Jose Ordonez-Miranda
Jose Ordonez-Miranda, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a CNRS researcher working at the laboratory LIMMS at The University of Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, He received his PhD degree in physics from CINVESTAV, Mexico, in collaboration with the University of Colorado, USA. His research area is the heat transport driven by polaritons, phonons, photons, and electrons propagating in nano-, micro-, and macro-materials with applications in thermotronics, photonics, electronics, thermoelectricity, and thermal management. His major contributions deal with the prediction of new physical effects and the conception of thermal devices.
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Sebastian Volz
Sebastian Volz, PhD, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Sebastian Volz has been investigating the role of phonons, electrons and photons in the thermal behaviour of micro and nano-structures. His group was involved in large european projects on thermoelectric micro-modules and thermal interface materials. Sebastian Volz has led the european Thermal NanoSciences and NanoEngineering network of the CNRS for 17 years (Springer, Topics in Applied Physics series, n° 107 and 118) and is now the director of the CNRS Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS, UMI CNRS 2820).
