Touch the back of a laptop and it often feels warm. This is because part of the energy used for computation and communication ...

In experiments involving a different new technology, thermal diodes, Peter Hagelstein (MIT) worked with Yan Kucherov, now a consultant for the Naval Research Laboratory, and coworkers to demonstrate ...

Quantum dot coupling is to restrict number of states and increase efficiency. Columb coupling is to avoid the blackbody limit. The current quantum-mechanical resonant-coupling model confirms the ...

This paper is the first direct demonstration of the transverse thermoelectric generation in WSi 2, and the results could pave the way for more efficient thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectric ...

EXPERIMENTS have been performed in the reactor Pluto as a stage in the development of cæsium-neutralized diodes for the direct conversion of fission heat to electric power. This work is similar to ...

MIT researchers are heating up clean energy technology with a new solar cell capable of converting solar heat into usable light, which raises the overall solar-to-electricity conversion rate of the ...

Startup GMZ Energy raises $14 million to make materials that convert heat to electricity, including a solar hot thermal product and chips to draw electricity from car exhaust pipes. Martin LaMonica is ...

Solar thermophotovoltaic devices have the potential to enhance the performance of solar energy harvesting by converting broadband sunlight to narrow-band thermal radiation tuned for a photovoltaic ...

New research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric power plants, ...