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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zongfu Yu, Stanford, CA (US);
Nicholas Sergeant, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Torbjorn Skauli, Oslo, NO;
Gang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Hailiang Wang, Stanford, CA (US);
Shanhui Fan, Stanford, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device is disclosed comprising a macroscopic thermal body and an extraction structure that is electromagnetically-coupled to the thermal emitting area of the thermal body. The macroscopic thermal body having a thermal emitting area, and the extraction structure configured and arranged to facilitate emission from, or receipt to the thermal emitting area that exceeds a theoretical, Stefan-Boltzmann, emission limit for a blackbody having the same thermal emitting area as the thermal body.