{"id":177687,"date":"2023-12-07T21:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/polaritons-open-up-a-new-lane-on-the-semiconductor-highway"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:25:56","slug":"polaritons-open-up-a-new-lane-on-the-semiconductor-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/polaritons-open-up-a-new-lane-on-the-semiconductor-highway","title":{"rendered":"Polaritons open up a new lane on the semiconductor highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/polaritons-open-up-a-new-lane-on-the-semiconductor-highway2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the highway of heat transfer, thermal energy is moved by way of quantum particles called phonons. But at the nanoscale of today\u2019s most cutting-edge semiconductors, those phonons don\u2019t remove enough heat. That\u2019s why Purdue University researchers are focused on opening a new nanoscale lane on the heat transfer highway by using hybrid quasiparticles called \u201cpolaritons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Beechem loves <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat transfer<\/a>. He talks about it loud and proud, like a preacher at a big tent revival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have several ways of describing energy,\u201d said Beechem, associate professor of mechanical engineering. \u201cWhen we talk about light, we describe it in terms of particles called \u2018photons.\u2019 Heat also carries energy in predictable ways, and we describe those waves of energy as \u2018phonons.\u2019 But sometimes, depending on the material, photons and phonons will come together and make something new called a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polariton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polariton<\/a>.\u2019 It carries energy in its own way, distinct from both photons or phonons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the highway of heat transfer, thermal energy is moved by way of quantum particles called phonons. But at the nanoscale of today\u2019s most cutting-edge semiconductors, those phonons don\u2019t remove enough heat. That\u2019s why Purdue University researchers are focused on opening a new nanoscale lane on the heat transfer highway by using hybrid quasiparticles called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}