Sensitive Shape-dependent near field radiative heat transfer

Omid Ramezan Choubdar, Moladad Nikbakht

Published 2016-02-03Version 1

We study the effect of particles shape on the radiative heat transfer in a three-body system. It is found that the radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles in a three body system can be tuned by the shape of the third particle. In particular, it is shown that the heat flux is very sensitive to the particle shapes and slight mismatches of shapes results in either enhanced or suppressed heat flux.