Highly-efficient radiative thermal rectifiers based on near-field gap variations
Bei Yang, Qing Dai
Abstract
) even under small thermal gradients (∼20 K), which can be further boosted by polaritonic hybridizations in the graphene/hBN-based design. This study paves the way to design novel NFRTRs with 2D materials, thus providing enriched polaritons to realize higher TRFs.
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