• Radiative heat transfer
• Heat radiation of artificial materials
• Cooling of nanoparticles
• Nanoscale thermal imaging

• Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Slawa Lang, Alexander Yu. Petrov, and Manfred Eich:
  Transport of radiative heat flux by hyperbolic metamaterials.
  (arXiv:1403.2664v1)

• Slawa Lang, Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Alexander Yu. Petrov, and Manfred Eich:
  Large penetration depth of near-field heat flux in hyperbolic media, in:
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 121903 (2014).
  arXiv:1403.5443v1
• Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Riccardo Messina, Svend-Age Biehs, Maria Tschikin, Karl Joulain, and Carsten Henkel:
  Heat superdiffusion in plasmonic nanostructure networks, in:
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 174301 (2013).
  arXiv:1306.4784v1
• Riccardo Messina, Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah:
  Fluctuational-electrodynamic theory and dynamics of heat transfer in multiple dipolar systems, in:
  Phys. Rev. B 88, 104307 (2013).
  arXiv:1306.4824v1
• Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Riccardo Messina and Philippe Ben-Abdallah:
  On the limits of the effective description of hyperbolic materials in the presence of surface waves, in:
  J. Opt. 15, 105101 (2013).
  arXiv:1302.3719v1
• Svend-Age Biehs, Maria Tschikin, Riccardo Messina, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah:
  Super-Planckian near-field thermal emission with phonon-polaritonic hyperbolic metamaterials, in:
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 131106 (2013).
  arXiv:1302.3782v1
  doi: 10.1063/1.4800233
• Maria Tschikin, Philippe Ben-Abdallah and Svend-Age Biehs:
  Coherent thermal conductance of 1-D photonic crystals, in:
  Phys. Lett. A 376, 3462 (2012).
  arXiv:1206.5659v1
• Svend-Age Biehs, Maria Tschikin, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah:
  Hyperbolic Metamaterials as an Analog of a Blackbody in the Near Field, in:
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 104301 (2012).
  arXiv:1112.4966v2
• Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Philippe Ben-Abdallah, Felipe S. S. Rosa:
  Radiative cooling of nanoparticles close to a surface, in:
  Eur. Phys. J. B 85, 233 (2012).
  arXiv:1112.3470v2
  doi: 10.1140/epjb/e2012-30219-7

Validity of the effective medium theory for hyperbolic layered materials in the presence of surface modes,
DPG Spring meeting,
March 2013, Regensburg, Germany

Radiative cooling of nanoparticles close to a surface,
META 2012, 3rd International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystal and Plasmonics,
April 2012, Paris, France

Radiative cooling of nanoparticles close to a surface,
DPG Spring meeting,
March 2012, Berlin, Germany

Radiative cooling of nanoparticles close to a surface,
ASME 2012, 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference,
March 2012, Atlanta, USA

• Maria Tschikin, Svend-Age Biehs, Riccardo Messina, and Philippe Ben-Abdallah:
  Super-Planckian Near-Field Thermal Emission with Phonon-Polaritonic Hyperbolic Metamaterials,
  Pysics School Les Houches: Nanoscale Radiative Heat Transfer in May 2013, Les Houches, France.
  
• Maria Tschikin, Philippe Ben-Abdallah and Svend-Age Biehs:
  Radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale between artificial structures,
  Spring meeting of the DPG in March 2013, Regensburg, Germany.
  

• Einfluss von Oberflächen-Polaritonen auf den Nahfeld-Wärmeübertrag zwischen verschiedenen Materialien
  (Oldenburg, September 2011, supervisors: Prof. Dr. M. Holthaus and Dr. S.-A. Biehs)

• Prüfung der mean-field-Theorie für ein Bose-Einstein-Kondensat in einer angetriebenen Doppelmulde
  (Oldenburg, October 2009, supervisors: Prof. Dr. M. Holthaus and PD Dr. C. Weiß)

• Thermodynamics and Statistics (Prof. Dr. M. Holthaus, winter semester 2013/2014)
• Classical Particles and Fields I (Prof. Dr. M. Holthaus, winter semester 2012/2013)
• Introduction to Theoretical Physics (Prof. Dr. M. Holthaus, summer semester 2011)
• Atomic and Molecular Physics (Prof. Dr. C. Lienau, summer semester 2008)

Education

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