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Date posted: 31/01/2017 Scientists have discovered that electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat, an exotic property in an unconventional material. In theory this could lead to processors that don't overheat, and a wide variety of applications in implanted and other embedded electronics. The findings are due to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science. For most metals, the relationship between electrical and thermal conductivity is governed by the Wiedemann-Franz Law. Simply put, the law states that good conductors of electricity are also good conductors of heat. That is not the case for metallic vanadium dioxide, a material already noted for its unusual ability to switch from an insulator to a metal when it reaches a balmy 67 degrees Celsius, or 152 degrees Fahrenheit. "This was a totally unexpected finding," said study principal investigator Junqiao Wu, a physicist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering. "It shows a drastic breakdown of a textbook law that has been known to be robust for conventional conductors. This discovery is of fundamental importance for understanding the basic electronic behavior of novel conductors." See the full Story via external site: www.sciencedaily.com Most recent stories in this category (Computing Power): 19/02/2017: Printable solar cells just got a little closer |
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