A research breakthrough demonstrates a new mechanism to control temperature and extend the lifetime of electronic and photonic devices such as sensors, smart phones and transistors. A research ...

The impressive capabilities of twenty-first century medical technology, from imaging equipment to surgical instruments and automated immunoassays, are in many ways a tribute to the advances in ...

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20%. The ...

New findings from CU Boulder researchers in Physical Review Applied show that nanoscale structures on the surfaces of silicon membranes can significantly change the way that heat travels through the ...

Flexible heaters are used in a wide range of medical and diagnostic devices. They play a crucial role in thermal control for applications such as nebulizers, respiratory humidifiers, blood analyzers, ...

A fabrication process can produce self-heating microfluidic devices in one step using a multimaterial 3D printer. These devices, which can be made rapidly and cheaply in large numbers, could help ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto Engineering have developed a tiny "heater" - about the size of a pill - that could allow resource-limited regions around the world to test for infectious ...

In recent years, rapid technological advancements in the field of high-performance computing have driven the development of increasingly sophisticated and powerful computing devices. This growth is ...

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...

A research team led by Professor Kim Bong-hoon from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), in collaboration with KAIST, POSTECH, Kyung Hee University, ...

With every new node there are additional physical effects that must be considered, but not all of them are of the same level of criticality. One that is being mentioned more frequently is self-heating ...