Keeping cool with a black semiconductor
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
As anyone who has held a laptop computer or cell phone knows, they produce heat that has the potential to damage the microchips inside. However, layered, crystalline black phosphorus could lead to a new microchip design that lets heat flow away and keeps electrons moving. For the first time, scientists observed that black phosphorus nanoribbons conduct heat two times more in the zig-zag direction compared to another direction.