Instead of relying on switches or digital control, the light finds its own path through the system. This approach could transform data transmission, computing, and communications by making optical ...

Recognizing that light in these systems undergoes a process akin to reaching thermal equilibrium—similar to how gases reach equilibrium through molecular collisions—the USC researchers developed a ...

Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits ...

(Nanowerk News) Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits such as Carnot efficiency, report researchers from Japan. The ...

Japanese researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in energy harvesting that could redefine efficiency limits. By exploiting quantum states that resist thermalization, their new approach converts waste ...

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However, conventional energy-harvesting methods are constrained by the laws of thermodynamics. In systems that rely on thermal equilibrium, these laws impose fundamental caps on heat conversion ...

Researchers in Konstanz discovered a way to manipulate materials with light by exciting magnon pairs, reshaping their ...

Heat is energy, called thermal energy, and is just one type of energy. Other types of energy include electromagnetic, nuclear ...

A collaborative team of physicists and microbiologists from UNIST and Stanford University has, for the first time, uncovered ...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are widely recognized for their outstanding power conversion efficiency, but their vulnerability to heat undermines ...