Dye-Zone A. Chen, Gang Chen*
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.1, No.2, pp. 1-6, 2010, DOI:10.5098/hmt.v1.2.3005
Abstract We present a calculation of the thermally generated electromagnetic flux propagating along the in-plane direction of a polar, thin film. The approach
is based on fluctuational electrodynamics and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. We find that for silicon carbide films between 5 nm and 100 nm
thick, the thinner films transport more in-plane flux due to the long propagation length of the anti-symmetric surface phonon-polariton mode.
Comparison of results obtained from the fluctuation-dissipation approach and the kinetic theory approach shows favorable agreement. More >
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