Copper moves the world's heat. For more than a century it has been recognized as one of the best heat conductors in nature, and this property made copper the go-to choice to cool electronics, ...

An international research team led by the University of Bayreuth has discovered a metal that combines electrical conductivity with internal polarity. This enables it to exhibit second harmonic ...

Schematic of magnon-engineered thermal transport in a ferromagnetic metal / magnetic insulator junction (a) and a ferromagnetic metal / non-magnetic insulator junction (b). When magnons can pass ...

NIMS, in joint research with the University of Tokyo, AIST, the University of Osaka, and Tohoku University, have proposed a novel method for actively controlling heat flow in solids by utilizing the ...