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Arvind Narayanaswamy

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Arvind Narayanaswamy
Assistant Professor
228A S. W. Mudd Mail Code: 4703

Phone: +1 212 854 0303
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Research interests:

My research will be characterized by the following theme: understand electromagnetic properties of nanoscale materials, near-field effects on radiative transfer, control of far-field thermal radiation with periodic structures, and applying the results to conversion of thermal radiation, such as solar radiation, to electric or chemical energy.

  • Theoretical investigation of electromagnetic near-field interaction between two spheres and between a sphere and a flat substrate.
  • Usage of dyadic Green’s functions in electromagnetic scattering problems, nano-optics, and near-field thermal radiation.
  • Refinement of an experimental technique (developed by Arvind Narayanaswamy and Gang Chen at MIT) to measure near-field thermal radiative exchange.
  • Experimental investigation of near-field thermal radiative exchange between a sphere and flat substrate or another sphere.
  • Investigating the dynamics of bi-material AFM cantilevers.
  • Theoretical and experimental investigation of spectrally selective emission from periodic structures.

 

Teaching interests:

Heat transfer, Thermal-fluid sciences, Thermodynamics, Nanoscale energy transport, Radiation energy transport, Wave propagation.

 

Education:

  • Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
  • MS, University of Delaware, 1999
  • B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, 1997

 

Publications:

Journal Publications

1. D. A. Chen, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, “Surface phonon-polariton mediated thermal conductivity enhancement of amorphous thin films,” Phys. Rev. B 72, 155435 (2005).

2. R. Yang, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, “Surface-plasmon coupled nonequilibrium thermoelectric refrigerators and power generators,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 2(1), pp. 75-87 (2005).

3. A. Narayanaswamy and G. Chen, “Direct computation of thermal emission from nanostructures,” Annual Review of Heat Transfer 14, pp. 169-196 (2005).

4. A. Narayanaswamy and G. Chen, “Thermal radiation in 1D photonic crystals,” J. of Quant. Spec. and Rad. Trans. 93, pp. 175-183 (2005).

5. L. Hu, A. Schmidt, A. Narayanaswamy, and G. Chen, “Effects of periodic structures on the coherence properties of blackbody radiation,” ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 126, pp. 786-792, (2004).

6. G. Chen, A. Narayanaswamy, and C. Dames, “Engineering nanoscale phonon and photon transport for direct energy conversion,” Superlattices and Microstructures 35, pp. 161-172 (2004).

7. C. Luo, A. Narayanaswamy, G. Chen, and J. D. Joannopoulos, “Thermal radiation from photonic crystals: A direct calculation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 213905 (2004).

8. A. Narayanaswamy and G. Chen, “Thermal emission control with one-dimensional metallodielectric photonic crystals,” Phys. Rev. B 70, 125101 (2004).

9. A. Narayanaswamy and G. Chen, “Surface modes for near field thermophotovoltaics,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 82 (20), pp. 3544-3546 (2003).