Condensed Matter Theory
Viacheslav Kubytskyi et.al.: Radiative Bistability and Thermal Memory
- Author(s): Viacheslav Kubytskyi, Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah
- Title: Radiative Bistability and Thermal Memory
- Date of Upload: 2014-08-15
- Article: Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 074301, American Physical Society
- Keywords: thermal radiation, phase-change materials, bistability, thermal memory
- PACS: 44.05.+e, 12.20.-m, 44.40.+a, 78.67.-n
- Abstract:
- We predict the existence of a thermal bistability in many-body systems out of thermal equilibrium which exchange heat by thermal radiation using insulator-metal transition materials. We propose a writing-reading procedure and demonstrate the possibility to exploit the thermal bistability to make a volatile thermal memory. We show that this thermal memory can be used to store heat and thermal information (via an encoding temperature) for arbitrary long times. The radiative thermal bistability could find broad applications in the domains of thermal management, information processing, and energy storage.
- URL: http://www.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/condmat/Biehs/pubs/p_ThermalBistability2014.pdf (text/plain)
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