A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared ...
Thermal cameras detect infrared radiation, which is heat energy emitted by objects rather than visible light. While these cameras cannot see through solid walls, they detect the surface temperature ...
The discovery of a thermal version of the Hall effect in common semiconductors challenges our understanding of how magnetic ...
Material properties such as sound insulation, resistance to extreme heat and thermal expansion originate from how the zillions of microscopic building blocks (nuclei and electrons) interact at ...
A new theoretical description of how thermal machines work in the quantum regime provides a guide to increasing their efficiency. Just as classical computers need refrigeration, quantum computers will ...