April 22, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — Modern research has found no simple, inexpensive way to alter a material’s thermal conductivity at room temperature. That lack of control has made it hard to create new classes of devices that use phonons — the agents of thermal conductivity — rather than electrons or photons to...
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