The approach accommodates backgrounds temperatures ranging from 80 to 800 Kelvin to assess the performance of novel variable emittance coatings for thermal control of spacecraft.

Radiative heat transfer in Ångström- and nanometre-sized gaps is of great interest because of both its technological importance and open questions regarding the physics of energy transfer in this ...

Every device heats up while in use, and while it is usually just an annoyance, it’s a big deal in quantum computing. Heat can actually affect the results of computation, so physicists have been ...

More heat is transferred between objects that are just a few nanometers apart than physics theory predicts. A research team at the University of Oldenburg has now confirmed this phenomenon, which was ...