Compact and efficient: prototype of a working, pocket-sized neutron detector made with semiconductor rich in lithium-6. (Courtesy: Northwestern University/Argonne National Laboratory) A semiconductor ...

Boron arsenide surpassed diamond in thermal conductivity, promising breakthroughs in electronics and semiconductors.

Data for six carrier gases of different thermal conductivities show a linear correlation between the logarithm of thermal conductivity and detector response. Carbon dioxide with a lower thermal ...

University of Houston researchers have made a discovery in thermal conductivity that overturns an existing theory that boron ...

Researchers have developed a new 'cooler' sensing instrument thereby increasing energy, efficiency and enhancing mobility for diagnostic testing. The new portable, field-friendly, mid-infrared ...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared ...

A team of Drexel Materials researchers has designed a transition metal oxide that exhibits unique electrical properties, making it a potential ultrafast thermal conductor that could transform the ...