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Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms
Heat transport is of similar fundamental importance and its control is for instance necessary to efficiently cool the ever smaller chips....
Feb 20, 20173 min read


Bumpy surfaces, graphene beat the heat in devices
Bumpy surfaces with graphene between would help dissipate heat in next-generation microelectronic devices, according to Rice University...
Nov 30, 20162 min read


New method to dissipate heat in electronic devices
Controlling the flow of heat through semiconductor materials is an important challenge in developing smaller and faster computer chips,...
Nov 11, 20162 min read


Electron-phonon interactions affect heat dissipation in computer chips
In the coming years, as more transistors are packed into ever smaller areas within computer chips, MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops,...
Oct 13, 20164 min read


Mechanical Quanta See The Light
Interconnecting different quantum systems is important for future quantum computing architectures, but has proven difficult to achieve....
Sep 19, 20163 min read


Spiders spin unique phononic material
Researchers at Rice University, in Europe and in Singapore discover band gaps in spider silk. New discoveries about spider silk could...
Jul 26, 20164 min read
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