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Published online 2 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060227-11
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Cooled by an electric pulse
Electric fields leave unusual ceramic cold.
A material has been made that turns cold at the push of a button, a feature that could be harnessed by novel cooling systems for computers.
Alex Mischenko of the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues say that their material may open the way to practical applications of 'electrical refrigeration', in which electric fields are used to keep things cool.
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