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Thermal transistor could cool down computer chips

19 Dec 2023 Isabelle Dumé
Illustration of a thermal transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of heat, showing a chip surrounded by glowing orange light and radiating a beam of heat
Illustration of a UCLA-developed solid-state thermal transistor using an electric field to control heat movement. (Courtesy: H-Lab/UCLA)
Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles, US, have invented a thermal transistor t

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Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World
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