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* [http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/how-get-old-fashioned-light-bulb-glow-without-wasting-so-much-energy Incandescent light made highly efficient by selectively reflecting back infrared photons]<br>[http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v11/n4/full/nnano.2015.309.html Original paper by Shawn-Yu Lin - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute] -- [https://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/lin.html]
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* [http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/how-get-old-fashioned-light-bulb-glow-without-wasting-so-much-energy Incandescent light made highly efficient by selectively reflecting back infrared photons] (this was not produced with atomic precision) <br>[http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v11/n4/full/nnano.2015.309.html Original paper by Shawn-Yu Lin - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute] -- [https://www.rpi.edu/dept/phys/faculty/profiles/lin.html]

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By structuring material on the nanoscale in particular ways one can influence the flow of phonons and thermal photons and thus the materials heat conductivity properties.

Electronic properties also can play a big role in heat conduction (especially in well electrically conducting metals). They also depend on the nano-structuring of the material but in addition the elements choosen to be used in the base material can play a much bigger role. This may make electrically conductive materials harder to analyze.

  • Emission of long wavelength photons can be suppressed -- converting heat to light

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