How to Control Heat with Hypersound
In solids, sounds and heat are entangled in the form of a quasiparticle called a phonon. Researchers at the SHINES center showed that they could control phonons by confining them in a field of nanowires. This finding will have major implications for managing heat in nanoscale electronics.
Creators
- Written and produced by Max Grossnickle
- Voice acting by Jackson Pitts and Juliet Young
- Sound editing by Lhasa Mencur
Song credits:
- seachange by airtone (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/53762
- gravitationalWaves by airtone (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/55021
- departures by airtone (c) copyright 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/50496 Ft: speck
This podcast is based on the work in “Direct observation of confined acoustic phonon polarization branches in free-standing semiconductor nanowires,” Balandin 2016.
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