What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What sounds a bit like science fiction may actually not be so far off. A new class of synthetic materials could ...

Welcome to the Phononics Lab! The Phononics Laboratory at CU Boulder is a research group lead by Dr. Mahmoud Hussein that investigates the dynamics of waves in matter at both the macroscale and the ...

Abstract: Phononics is an emerging field that seeks to elucidate the nature of intrinsic mechanical motion in both conventional and artificially structured materials, and use this knowledge to extend ...

Technological innovation in the last century was mainly based on the control of electrons or photons. Now, in the emerging research field of phononics, phonons or vibrations of the crystal lattice ...

What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can, but better? A new class of synthetic materials could allow for smaller devices that use less power. What if your earbuds could do ...

For decades, advances in electronics and optics have driven progress in information technology, energy and biomedicine. Now researchers at the University of Arizona are pioneering a new field -- ...

Professor Nicholas X. Fang, Jockey Club STEM Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor Xiang Zhang, HKU President and Vice-Chancellor, have been jointly awarded the 2025 ...

Phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials are used to tailor phonon and sound propagation properties by utilizing artificial, periodic structures. Analogous to photonic crystals, phononic band gaps ...

Researchers have succeeded in building diodes that manipulate heat, which paves the way for thermal transistors and logic. Lei Wang and Baowen Li describe the emerging field of “phononics” When it ...

We will develop thermal conduction control technology based on the wave nature of phonons and highly efficient thermoelectric materials with low environmental load. We endeavor to create novel ...