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Surfaces and interfaces

Surfaces and interfaces

Surface phonon polaritons boost heat transfer

01 May 2018 Hamish Johnston
quartz plates
Parallel plates: illustration of the quartz plates used to measure heat transfer. (Courtesy: M Ghashami et al/Phys. Rev. Lett.)
New insights into why heat transfer between objects is enhanced at very short separations have been

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