Compact and efficient: prototype of a working, pocket-sized neutron detector made with semiconductor rich in lithium-6. (Courtesy: Northwestern University/Argonne National Laboratory) A semiconductor ...

IT is quite true that the sensitivity of the detector would be higher with a carrier gas of high thermal conductivity, provided that the hot wire can be maintained at the same temperature. In practice ...

Mechanical Engineering Professor Alan McGaughey of Carnegie Mellon University recently coordinated the Phonon Olympics, ...

Data for six carrier gases of different thermal conductivities show a linear correlation between the logarithm of thermal conductivity and detector response. Carbon dioxide with a lower thermal ...

University of Houston researchers have made a discovery in thermal conductivity that overturns an existing theory that boron arsenide (BAs) couldn't compete with the heat conduction of a diamond.

Scientists have long hailed diamond as nature’s ultimate heat conductor, but that crown may now belong to a synthetic crystal. Researchers at the University of Houston have discovered that boron ...

Scientists have upended long-held assumptions about thermal conductivity, revealing that boron arsenide crystals can conduct heat even better than diamond. Researchers at the University of Houston ...

A team of Drexel Materials researchers has designed a transition metal oxide that exhibits unique electrical properties, making it a potential ultrafast thermal conductor that could transform the ...