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For the engineers who design cell phones, solar panels and computer chips, it`s increasingly important to be able to control the way heat moves through the crystalline materials - such as silicon - that these devices are based on. In computer and cell-phone chips, for example, one of the key limitations to increasing speed and memory is the need to dissipate the heat generated by the chips.

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