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UCR researchers discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices; modulating the flow of phonons

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An international team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has modified the energy spectrum of acoustic phonons—elemental excitations, also referred to as quasi-particles, that spread heat through crystalline materials like a wave—by confining them to nanometer-scale semiconductor structures.

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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I was involved in work on national standardization and work with international organizations such as IEEE, IEC, EBU, ITU, OSA and others. I wanted to take my wife to Moldova, but she refused. Sometimes I was brought in as an expert in Ukraine’s National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA).

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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The move simultaneously looped in Moldova. ius, head of studies for the International Centre for Defence Analysis based in Tallinn, has been expressing concern about the political disunity that has slowed the Baltics’ progress. The scale of the achievement is hard to overstate, according to Ukrenergo’s CEO. ”We

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