Thin-Film System Converts Heat from Electronics into Energy

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-34758
Published July 01, 2019 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Much of that heat is less than 100 °C and emanates from things like computers, cars, or large industrial processes. A thin-film system was developed that can be applied to sources of waste heat like these to produce energy at levels unprecedented for this kind of technology.