Sebastian Volz has been developing direct simulations and characterizations to understand the role of phonons, electrons, and photons in the thermal behaviour of micro and nano-structures. His group was involved in large European projects on thermoelectricity and thermal interface materials. Sebastian Volz has led the European Thermal NanoSciences and NanoEngineering network of the CNRS for 17 years and is now the director of the Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS), joint between CNRS and The University of Tokyo. Dr. Jose Ordonez-Miranda is a CNRS researcher working at the laboratory LIMMS located at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research area is the heat transport driven by phonons, photons, and polaritons propagating in nano, micro- and macro-materials with applications in thermal computing (thermotronics), electronics, photonics, and thermoelectricity. The Boltzmann transport equation, Fourier's law, Stefan-Boltzmann's formula, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, and fluctuational electrodynamics are his main tools for theoretically and experimentally studying the heat transport in linear and non-linear materials subjected to steady-state and dynamical conditions.

• Brief history of surface electromagnetic waves.- Fundamentals of polaritons.- Electromagnetic field equations.- Dispersion relations and propagation parameters.- Polariton Heat Transport in polar dielectric materials.- Polariton Heat Transport in metals.

Sebastian Volz has been developing direct simulations and characterizations to understand the role of phonons, electrons, and photons in the thermal behaviour of micro and nano-structures. His group was involved in large European projects on thermoelectricity and thermal interface materials. Sebastian Volz has led the European Thermal NanoSciences and NanoEngineering network of the CNRS for 17 years and is now the director of the Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS), joint between CNRS and The University of Tokyo. Dr. Jose Ordonez-Miranda is a CNRS researcher working at the laboratory LIMMS located at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research area is the heat transport driven by phonons, photons, and polaritons propagating in nano, micro- and macro-materials with applications in thermal computing (thermotronics), electronics, photonics, and thermoelectricity. The Boltzmann transport equation, Fourier's law, Stefan-Boltzmann's formula, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, and fluctuational electrodynamics are his main tools for theoretically and experimentally studying the heat transport in linear and non-linear materials subjected to steady-state and dynamical conditions.

• Brief history of surface electromagnetic waves.- Fundamentals of polaritons.- Electromagnetic field equations.- Dispersion relations and propagation parameters.- Polariton Heat Transport in polar dielectric materials.- Polariton Heat Transport in metals.

Sebastian Volz has been developing direct simulations and characterizations to understand the role of phonons, electrons, and photons in the thermal behaviour of micro and nano-structures. His group was involved in large European projects on thermoelectricity and thermal interface materials. Sebastian Volz has led the European Thermal NanoSciences and NanoEngineering network of the CNRS for 17 years and is now the director of the Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems (LIMMS), joint between CNRS and The University of Tokyo. Dr. Jose Ordonez-Miranda is a CNRS researcher working at the laboratory LIMMS located at the University of Tokyo, Japan. His research area is the heat transport driven by phonons, photons, and polaritons propagating in nano, micro- and macro-materials with applications in thermal computing (thermotronics), electronics, photonics, and thermoelectricity. The Boltzmann transport equation, Fourier's law, Stefan-Boltzmann's formula, Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, and fluctuational electrodynamics are his main tools for theoretically and experimentally studying the heat transport in linear and non-linear materials subjected to steady-state and dynamical conditions.

• Brief history of surface electromagnetic waves.- Fundamentals of polaritons.- Electromagnetic field equations.- Dispersion relations and propagation parameters.- Polariton Heat Transport in polar dielectric materials.- Polariton Heat Transport in metals.