École Thématique du CNRS
THERMAL RADIATION AT THE NANOSCALE:
FORCES, HEAT TRANSFER, COHERENCE
(TRN 07)
Les Houches (F), May 21-25, 2007
The meeting is now over. Thank you to all participants for the nice time and discussions that we had. You will find here the slides of the presentations and PDF versions of the posters.
Scope: Thermal radiation is often described in the far-field regime. Recent developments in different fields require a detailed description of thermal radiation properties in a distance range from a few microns (i.e. near-field regime for the wavelength relevant to thermal properties) to the nanometric scale. It has been demonstrated in particular that the thermal field exhibit coherence properties, even in the far-field regime provided that the emitting surface has been micro-structured. The fundamental Casimir effect, now measured in precision experiments, must be compared with predictions considering a non-zero temperature and friction forces due to thermal fluctuations are being studied. A set of three lectures provided an introduction to fluctuational electrodynamics, optical forces and thermodynamics at nanoscale. Recent theoretical and experimental advances were covered by 15 seminars given by leading experts in the field.
Lectures
S. BARNETT (Strathclyde U.), Radiation pressure and momentum transfer in dielectrics
C. HENKEL (U. Potsdam), Introduction to fluctuational electrodynamics, surface polaritons and coherence
Lecture notes associated to the talks, published in Handbook of Theo. and Comput. Nanotech.,
M. Rieth and W. Schommers ed. (ASP, 2005), Chap. 25.
M. RUBI (U. Barcelona), Nanothermodynamics
Articles associated to the talks : PNAS 2001, Physica A 2003, J. Phys. Chem. B 2005
Seminars
M. ANTEZZA (U. Trento), Interaction between atoms and thermal radiation
D. BLOCH (U. Paris 13), Towards temperature effects in atom-surface van der Waals interaction
G. CHEN (MIT), Heat transfer at nanoscale
I. DOROFEYEV (RAS, Nizhny Novgorod), Energy and momentum transfer between microparticles and solids
J-J. GREFFET (École Centrale Paris), Coherent thermal emission
Review article associated to the meeting topics (Surf. Sci. Rep. 57, 59-112 (2005))
K. JOULAIN (ENSMA Poitiers), Radiative heat transfer in the near field
A. KITTEL (U. Oldenburg), Experimental study of the radiative heat transfer in the near field
K. KARRAI (U. Munich), Friction forces measurements in the near field
S. REYNAUD (ENS Paris), Casimir forces, a (re)view
U. MOHIDEEN (UC Riverside), Measurements on Casimir forces
K. MILTON (U. Oklahoma), Dependence of Casimir force on temperature
J. OBRECHT (JILA, Boulder), Recent experiments on temperature dependence of Casimir-Polder force
A. I. VOLOKITIN (Samara Tech. State U.), Radiative friction forces, a review of the theoretical models
J. TAKAHARA (Osaka U.), Modification of light emission by microstructured surfaces
E. VINOGRADOV (RAS), Vibrational polaritons in semiconductor films and surfaces
Y. DE WILDE (ESPCI Paris), Experimental measurements of thermal fields in the near field
Posters
J. Drevillon and P. Ben Abdallah (U. Nantes),
Design ab initio of coherent thermal sources
S.A. Biehs (U. Oldenburg), O. Huth, F. Ruetting, and M. Holthaus,
Thermal near field of a coated metal
A. Lambrecht, I. Calvo Pelaez (ENS Paris), L. Bilhaut, L. Duraffourg, P. Andreucci,
Adhesion forces in a nanoswitch
P.-O. Chapuis (Ecole Centrale Paris), S. Volz, C. Henkel, and J.J. Greffet,
Non-local radiative heat transfer between two parallel plane surfaces
P.-O. Chapuis (Ecole Centrale Paris), S. Volz, M. Laroche, and J.J. Greffet,
Magnetic dipole contribution to near-field radiative heat transfer
M. Garin (U. Politecnica de Catalunya), T. Trifonov, A. Rodriguez and R. Alcubilla,
Patterning of MIR thermal emission by 3D macroporous silicon
F. Ghmari (U. Tunis), T. Ghabara, I. Sassi, M. B. Matchiane, M. S. Sifaoui, and J.-J. Greffet,
A study on radiative properties of rough surfaces
M. Francoeur (U. Kentucky) and M. P. Menguc,
Characterization of nanoparticles via surface wave scattering
B. Zhang and C. Henkel (U. Potsdam),
Thermal magnetic noise near sub-wavelength metallic structures
J.S. Heron (CEA Grenoble), O. Bourgeois, and T. Fournier,
Phonon transport in structured silicon nanowires
D.V. Kazantsev (U. Moscow) and R. Hillenbrand,
Resonant excitation and non-resonant observation of the running phonon polariton waves on crystals surfaces
A. Lambrecht, I. Calvo Pelaez (ENS Paris), L. Bilhaut, L. Duraffourg, P. Andreucci,
Adhesion forces in a nanoswitch
F. Marquier (Ecole Centrale Paris), C. Arnold, J.J. Greffet and Y. Chen,
Surface waves assisted thermal emission in s polarization
I.J. Masilta (U. Jyväskylä), P.J. Kappinen, and T. Isolato,
Near-field thermal transport below 1K
T. Passerat de Silans (U. Paris 11), M. Momanelli, P.C.S. Segundo, A. Laliotis, I. Mourin,
M.P. Gorza, D. Bloch, and M. Ducloy,
Laser spectroscopy af an atomic vapour near an interface
I. Pirozhenko (ENS Paris) and A. Lambrecht,
Metamaterials and Casimir repulsive force
Andreas Knuebel, Uli Wischnath (U. Oldenburg) and Achim Kittel,
Heat transfer calibration of a
Near-Field Scanning Thermal Microscope (NSThM)
Uli F. Wischnath (U. Oldenburg), Wolfgang Mueller-Hirsch, Joachim Welker and Achim Kittel,
An experimental approach to the field: Near-Field Scanning Thermal Microscopy (NSThM)
V. Yannopapas (U. Patras) and N.V. Vitanov,
Spatial coherence of the thermal radiation field
in the presence of finite sources
V. Yannopapas (U. Patras) and N.V. Vitanov,
Ab initio theory of the van der Waals interactions among macroscopic bodies
V. Yannopapas (U. Patras) and N.V. Vitanov,
Atom decay within clusters of dielectric metallic nanoparticles
B. Zhang and C. Henkel (U. Potsdam),
Thermal magnetic noise near sub-wavelength metallic structures
About the meeting
Scientific Commitee:
G. Barton (Sussex U.), G. Chen (MIT), I.
Dorofeyev (RAS, Nizhny Novgorod), C. Henkel (U. Potsdam), M.
Holthaus (U. Oldenburg), K. Karrai (LMU, Munich),
J. Obrecht (JILA, Boulder), B.N.J. Persson (IFF Forschungszentrum Juelich),
L. Pitaevskii (U. Trento and Kapitza Institute, Moscow), S. Reynaud
(École Normale Supérieure, Paris), J. Takahara (U. Osaka), Z. Zhang (Georgia Tech)
Organizing Commitee: D. Bloch, P.-O. Chapuis, J.J. Greffet, M. Laroche, and the Center of Physics staff
Localization:
Les Houches is a resort village in the Chamonix
valley in the French Alps. Established in 1951, the Physics School is located in
a group of chalets surrounded by meadows and woods, at an altitude of 1150 m
facing the Mont-Blanc range - a very favourable environment for intellectual
activity in ideal surroundings for hiking, mountaineering and sight-seeing. How to
get there ?
Sponsors:
The meeting is sponsored by "Formation Permanente du CNRS" in the frame
of "École Thématique du CNRS", École Centrale Paris,
Université Paris 13, GDR-CNRS "Thermique des Nanosystèmes
et Nanomatériaux", and the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
The Physics School is affiliated with Université Joseph Fourier and Institut National Polytechnique
de Grenoble, and is supported by the Ministère de la Jeunesse, de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche,
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Direction des Sciences de la Matière du
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA/DSM).
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