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 ...

Researchers have now developed a thermal diode: a computer component that runs on heat instead of electricity. ... of the "heat diode" is only around 5-11% (0.05 - 0.11).

Malin Premaratne earned several degrees from the University of Melbourne, including a B.Sc. in mathematics, a B.E. in electrical and electronics engineering (with first-class honors), and a Ph.D ...

A microchip that can transform heat into electric current is now working on a lab bench at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US. Its inventors say it could harness heat from a car's ...

A new heat-to-energy converter has reached a record efficiency of 44% – the average steam turbine manages about 35%, for comparison. This thermophotovoltaic cell is a major step on the way to ...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have learned how to produce electricity from Earth’s excess heat through quantum tunneling. Quantum ...

Mitsubishi Electric to Launch 80x60 pixel Thermal Diode Infrared Sensor Identifies heat-source types and human behavior in wide areas and with high precision March 09, 2021 09:10 PM Eastern ...

2. Experimental setup of the bridging-droplet thermal diode. (a) Photograph of the wicked copper plate possessing an array of wetted micropillars of dimensions 100 × 100 × 600 μm.

Infrared heat can be harvested 24 hours a day and one way to achieve this is to treat waste or infrared heat as high-frequency electromagnetic waves. Using appropriately designed antennas, collected ...

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 ...

This could expand computing to some far-out locations.