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RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER

A three-body affair

A membrane placed below the plane of an emitter and a receiver can interact with the radiative modes and modulate heat transfer by as much as a factor of five.

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Fig. 1: The three-body effect.

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Edalatpour, S. A three-body affair. Nat. Nanotechnol. 15, 85–86 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0608-6

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