Title
Near-isotropic polariton heat transport along a polar anisotropic nanofilm
Date Issued
16 September 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Wu Y.
Nomura M.
Volz S.
The University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
The heat transport of surface phonon-polaritons propagating along a polar uniaxial anisotropic nanofilm is studied for different orientations of its optical axis, film thicknesses, and temperatures. For an hBN nanofilm, it is shown that i) the propagation of polaritons can be described in terms of even and odd modes that generalize the transverse magnetic and transverse electrical ones that typically appear in isotropic films. ii) The frequency spectrum of polaritons can efficiently be tuned with the angle between the film optical axis and their propagation direction. iii) The polariton thermal conductivity takes higher values for a thinner or hotter nanofilm. iv) The even and odd modes have a remarkable contribution to the total polariton thermal conductivity, which takes a value higher than 5.6 Wm−1K−1 for a 25-nm-thick nanofilm at 500 K. The obtained results thus uncover some key features of the propagation and heat transport of polaritons in uniaxial nanofilms.
Volume
25
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales Nano-procesos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85136133136
Source
iScience
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the CREST Japan Science and Technology Agency , Grants No. JPMJCR19Q3 and No. JPMJCR19I1 , and the French project ANR-19-CE09-0005 “EPolariton.”
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