xMEMS Labs, a Santa Clara, California-based company that says it created the first monolithic silicon MEMS air pump, announced a solid-state cooling chip designed specifically for extended reality ...

A startup founded by a material physicist has been working for the past seven years to change the way we cool our food and ...

Donut Lab has released additional details about the world’s first solid-state electric bike, the Verge TS Pro Gen2. The startup claims to have cracked the code to production-ready solid-state ...

Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as solid-state replacement for both ...

Several companies and research teams are in the process of commercializing solid-state cooling technologies. Once several technical challenges are overcome, the technology is expected to provide a ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric ...

Why solid-state is an attractive proposition, in principle. How a new material offers far greater cooling efficiency and overall performance, along with manufacturing ease. The test results achieved ...

The technology shifts the focus from refrigerant-based systems to hydronics, requiring skills in flow dynamics, pumps, and piping rather than traditional refrigeration techniques Regulatory pressures ...