Affiliation:
1. Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System Ministry of Education and Shanxi Province College of Optoelectronics Taiyuan University of Technology Taiyuan 030024 China
Abstract
AbstractRemote temperature control can be obtained by a long‐focus thermal lens that can focus heat fluxes into a spot far from the back surface of the lens and create a virtual thermal source/sink in the background material, around which the temperature field distribution can be remotely controlled by varying the parameters of the thermal lens. However, because of the lack of negative thermal conductivity, existing thermal lenses have extremely short focal lengths and cannot be used to remotely control the temperature field around the virtual thermal source/sink. In this study, a general approach is proposed to equivalently realize materials with negative thermal conductivity using elaborately distributed active thermal metasurfaces (ATMSs). Subsequently, the proposed ATMS is used to implement a novel thermal lens with a long focal length designed using transformation thermodynamics, and finally realize the ATMS with realistic materials and experimentally verify the performance of the designed long‐focus thermal lens (measured focal length of 19.8 mm) for remote heating/cooling. The proposed method expands the scope of the thermal conductivity and provides new pathways to realize unprecedented thermal effects with effective negative thermal conductivity, such as “thermal surface plasmon polaritons,” a thermal superlens, the thermal tunneling effect, and the thermal invisible gateway.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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