We investigate the radiative properties of plasmonic core-shell nanowire resonators and, using boundary element method calculations, demonstrate enhanced radiative decay rate by up to 3500 times in nanoscale compound semiconductor/metal cavities. Calculation of the local density of optical states enables identification of new types of modes in cavities with mode volumes on the order of 10(-4)(λ...

1. Experimental Details. a. Synthesis b. Characterizations c. X-ray data, and d. Spectroscopic properties 2. Computational Details a. State specific calculation procedures b. Radiative decay rate calculations c. Non-radiative decay rate calculations d. Further references 3. Further calculation results a. TDDFT results at the optimized S0 geometries b. Radiative decay rate calculations c. Non-ra...

The radiative properties of patterned silicon wafers have a major impact on the two critical issues in rapid thermal processing (RTP), namely wafer temperature uniformity and wafer temperature measurement. The surface topography variation of the die area caused by patterning and the roughness of the wafer backside can have a significant effect on the radiative properties, but these effects are ...

Continuum-scale equations of radiative transfer and corresponding boundary conditions are derived for a general case of a multi-component medium consisting of arbitrary-type, non-isothermal and non-uniform components in the limit of geometrical optics. The link between the discrete and continuum scales is established by volume averaging of the discrete-scale equations of radiative transfer by a...

One of the major sources of uncertainty in climate studies is the detection of cirrus clouds and characterization of their radiative properties. Combinations of water vapor absorption channels (e.g., 1.38 mm), ice–water absorption channels (e.g., 1.64 mm), and atmospheric window channels (e.g., 11 mm) in the imager, together with a lidar profiler on future EOS platforms, will contribute to enha...

Most current methods for calculating radiative transfer treat radiance errors to the point where no one has seriously light as a scalar quantity, even though it is well known that a worried about the adequacy of the scalar approximation in proper description of light requires explicit recognition of its radiative transfer modeling. Moreover, the nature of radiative electromagnetic nature. Accor...

There is a growing interest in incorporating multiply scattered waves into modeling the Earth’s interior using radiative transfer. We examine radiative transfer in a layered medium with general scattering and directional properties of the source. This allows us to demonstrate in detail the nature of energy propagation in the presence of strong scattering. At its most basic level, radiative tran...

Radiative cooling is a promising solid-state, non-vapor-compression technology for passive refrigeration and air conditioning. Although this phenomenon occurs naturally, achieving significant amount of to make it technically economically viable requires highly engineered, spectrally selective radiative surfaces. These characteristics difficult estimate, particularly when integrated with other s...

The optical and magnetic properties of dust grains are reviewed , as they relate to the problem of interstellar grain alignment. Grain geometry plays an important role in determining the optical properties , and scattering and absorption of starlight will produce radiative torques which may drive grains to suprathermal rates of rotation in in-terstellar clouds; these radiative torques appear li...

This paper presents a numerical investigation for laminar forced convection flow of a radiating gas in a rectangular duct with a solid element that makes a backward facing step. The fluid is treated as a gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering medium. The governing differential equations consisting the continuity, momentum and energy are solved numerically by the computational fluid dynamics t...