phase-change material

One of her specialties were phase-change materials, including molten salts to store thermal energy.

Another possibility is to use a phase-change material as thermal storage where latent heat is used to store energy.

This group of compounds has attracted a lot of research attention because they include semiconductors, photovoltaics and phase-change materials.

Latent heat is typically stored in ice tanks or what are called phase-change materials (PCMs).

The discrepancy has forced phase-change memory structures to package the heater and sometimes the phase-change material itself in sublithographic dimensions.

The dielectric may begin to leak current at higher temperature, or may lose adhesion when expanding at a different rate from the phase-change material.

In the 1980s, he unraveled complex thermal problems, including convection in the presence of phase-change materials for thermal energy storage in space.

The incubator produced by Embrace uses phase-change material in a sleeping bag design to maintain temperature inside the incubator entirely without electricity, making it well-suited to rural areas.

Key to its operation are the carefully selected waxy substances known as phase-change materials that are contained in 10 external tubes, which house enough material to allow net power generation.

The IIR holds international conferences on key themes (natural refrigerants, the cold chain, magnetic refrigeration, cryogenics, compressors, phase-change materials and slurries, new technologies.)

A phase-change material (PCM) is a substance with a high heat of fusion which, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature, is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy.

PRAM is based on a technology similar to that in a writable CD or DVD, using a phase-change material that changes its magnetic or electrical properties instead of its optical ones.

Varying compositions of GeSbTe ("GST alloys") and Ag- and In- doped SbTe ("AIST alloys"), being examples of phase-change materials, are widely used in rewritable optical disks and phase-change memory devices.

Such media must be played in specially tuned drives, since the phase-change material has less of a contrast in reflectivity than dye-based media; while most modern drives support such media, many older CD drives cannot recognize the narrower threshold and cannot read such discs.

Passive solar technologies include direct and indirect solar gain for space heating, solar water heating systems based on the thermosiphon or geyser pump, use of thermal mass and phase-change materials for slowing indoor air temperature swings, solar cookers, the solar chimney for enhancing natural ventilation, and earth sheltering.