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QUANTUM MECHANICAL NATURE OF HEAT FLOW
Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 @ 17:17:45 UTC by vlad

Science PHYSICISTS DEMONSTRATE QUANTUM MECHANICAL NATURE OF HEAT FLOW, April 15

One of the hallmarks of quantum mechanics -- the laws of physics that apply on very small scales -- is the wave nature exhibited by sub-atomic particles such as electrons. An electron presented with two paths to a destination will use its wave nature to traverse both paths and, depending on the parameters of the two paths, will constructively or destructively interfere with itself at its destination, leading to a high or low probability of it appearing there.




Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3734.html

SCIENTISTS MODEL PHYSICS OF STELLAR BURNING, April 15
A University of California scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with astronomers from around the world recently validated a computer model that predicts the rebirth and stellar burning and mixing processes of evolved stars. The discovery is a leap forward in our understanding of how stars like the sun evolve through violent outbursts during their evolution.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3733.html

UC BERKELEY-USC PROJECT TO STUDY 'DIGITAL KIDS', April 15
A University of California, Berkeley, professor is spearheading a team just awarded $3.3 million to study "digital kids."

"It will be exciting to investigate kids' innovative knowledge cultures, and how they learn using digital media, in order to think about the consequences for public education as 'digital kids' flow through the school system," said Peter Lyman, a professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management & Systems (SIMS) and one of three principal investigators for the project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news3740.html




 
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A NEW KIND OF EQUILIBRIUM (Score: 1)
by vlad on Sunday, April 17, 2005 @ 18:14:00 UTC
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PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE

The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News

Number 727 April 14, 2005 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein

A NEW KIND OF EQUILIBRIUM. Normally heat will flow from a hot place to a neighboring cold place. In a new form of thermoelectric refrigerator, proposed by Tammy Humphrey (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Heiner Linke (University of Oregon), temperature imbalances can be held at bay by electrochemical imbalances. The implications? Possibly much more efficient forms of no-moving-parts electric refrigerators.

Heat and electricity are two forms of energy, and in a special circuit, made from thermoelectric materials, a temperature difference can generate electricity and, conversely, a voltage difference can bring about a temperature difference. A thermoelectric circuit usually consists of two semiconductors joined at two junctions. One of the semiconductors is of the p type with a surplus of holes, the other of the n type with a surplus of electrons. Here's how you can generate heat or electricity in contrary phenomena. In the Peltier effect, a voltage imbalance will pull electrons and holes out of one of the junctions, thus cooling that junction and warming the other junction. In the Seebeck effect, things work in reverse: a temperature imbalance between the junctions will set electrons and holes in motion, thus constituting an electric current. The Peltier effect is at work, for example, in on-chip cooling of critical microcircuitry. The Seebeck effect is used in powering spacecraft (too far from the sun for photocells to be of use), where the heat from a radioactive source is used to make electricity. What keeps thermoelectric devices from greater applicability is the poor efficiency, typically 10%. One of the main problems is that some of the heat (applied at one junction) used to drive a current through the circuit is carried by electrons to the other junction, reducing the thermal gradient and therefore sapping the process of generating electricity. What one needs is a circuit good for electric conduction but poor for thermal conduction by electrons. And this is what Humphrey (tammy.humphrey@unsw.edu.au
) and Linke's proposed circuit would do (see figure at www.aip.org/png ). The p-leg and n-leg parts of the circuits would consist not of bulk matter but of quantum dots, nanoscopic pieces of matter in which only select electron energies are allowed. Engineer the dots to discourage the higher-energy electrons carrying thermal energy, heat leakage will drop, and the overall efficiency will go up. The best thermoelectric efficiencies are about 10%. If efficiencies could be pushed to 50%, the thermoelectric approach
(silent, less bulky, no refrigerant, long lived) would compete to take over even bulk household refrigeration, Humphrey says.

(Physical Review Letters, 11 March 2005; lab website www.humphrey.id.au, http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~linke/ )

COOLING OF BULK MATERIAL has been achieved with a solid-state refrigerator. At the heart of the NIST-Boulder device is a tiny sandwich-shaped diode whose layers are successively a normal metal, an insulator, and a superconductor. The stack has the effect of pulling the hottest electrons out of the normal-metal layer. This no-moving-parts refrigerator is not the first to achieve 100 mK temperatures but it is the first to do so with technologically useful cooling powers. The NIST micro-fridge chilled a cube of germanium about 250 microns on a side and with a mass of 80 micrograms. This sounds like a small speck of matter, but it was enormous compared to the size of the refrigerating junctions (see figure at www.aip.org/png ). Indeed, the ratio of the volume of the cube to the volume of the junctions is 11,000. This is equivalent to a refrigerator the size of a person chilling something the size of the Statue of Liberty. In preliminary tests, the cube was cooled from 320 mK down to 240 mK. Future improvements should lower the base temperature to near 100 mK. According to NIST physicist Joel Ullom (ullom@boulder.nist.gov), their refrigerator works best at temperatures below 1 K, so it won't be used to cool foods. But it will be very useful for chilling circuitry on chips and maybe samples as large as the centimeter size.

(Clark et al., Applied Physics Letters, upcoming article)



 

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