News tagged with thermal wave

Imec demonstrates extremely high-speed heterojunction bipolar transistors

Imec realized a fT/fMAX 245GHz/450GHz SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) device, a key enabler for future high-volume millimeter-wave low-power circuits to be used in automotive radar applications. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Research in microscale heat transfer promises to benefit military systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- A two-year-old Air Force Office of Scientific Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative effort involving the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Brown University, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sound could save circuits: Researchers theorize acoustic waves may cool microelectronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Hot sounds" has one meaning to music fans and another to physicists. Count a team of researchers at Rice University among the latter, as they've discovered that acoustic waves traveling along ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

With support, graphene still a superior thermal conductor

The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful component in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at MIT have discovered a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes. The discovery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 07, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (75) | comments 17 | with audio podcast