Les Houches School of PhysicsSince 1951

Controlling thermal emission, or the reciprocal phenomenon of absorption of electromagnetic radiation, is crucial in various applications including heat management, energy harvesting and conversion, sensing, imaging, or producing novel sources and detectors. The development of metamaterials and complex media has led to remarkable effects in heat-light conversion and transfer, due to light-matter interaction at the subwavelength scale. The school will cover these topics both from the fundamental perspective and from the applications point of view.