A team at MIT is working on constructing thermal diodes that are able to convert heat to electricity at lower temperatures than ever before, which may eventually lead to practical uses for thermal ...

exploring how heat and energy behave when quantum mechanical effects dominate. Innovations such as quantum thermal diodes, capable of directing heat flow in a specific direction, and quantum ...

heat is a normal byproduct of electricity. Researchers have now developed a thermal diode: a computer component that runs on heat instead of electricity. This could be the first step towards ...

A new heat-to ... converted into electricity, while others bounce back to the heat storage material, giving them another chance of being emitted as the right kind of photon. A diagram of the ...

so converted heat to electricity. Diagram depicting how energy is generated as temperature varied. Gang Chen, CC BY The amount of heat energy generated is dependent on the temperature and the ...

Thermal diodes, much like their electrical counterparts, provide unidirectional heat transfer, allowing heat to flow in one ...

have tested a device that can convert infrared heat into electrical power that uses a power-generation tool called a ‘thermo-radiative diode’, which is similar to the technology in night ...

What's more, the thermal diode can help to limit the amount of energy that is wasted in computation. "If you could harness this heat and use it for energy in these devices, you could obviously cut ...

A microchip that can transform heat into electric ... sun generating electricity. The device may be clever, but it has a decidedly unprepossessing name: a thermal diode.

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How a Virginia Tech research team constructed its novel thermal diode ... resisting heat on the opposite side. (Note: In electronics, the term “thermal diode” refers to an electrical diode ...

to make the so-called thermoelectric materials, which could be used in devices in cars and homes to convert unused heat to electricity ... such as light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, and the ...