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Thermopower Waves: A New Discovery at MIT

March 13, 2010 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Think of electrons as flotsam on a wave as it moves across the surface of the ocean. That's how scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describe a previously unknown phenomenon, which they are calling "thermopower waves." A thermal wave is a moving pulse of heat that travels along microscopic wires known as... [read more]