Oak Ridge

Travis Humble, director of the Quantum Science Center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, said he agreed Microsoft would now be able to deliver prototypes faster - but warned there remained work to do.

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a way to thwart deactivation.

In a new study published in npj Nanophotonics, Naik and his former Ph.D. student Ciril Samuel Prasad -- who has since earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Rice and has taken on a role as a postdoctoral research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- demonstrated a new thermal emitter that promises efficiencies of over 60% despite being application-ready.

“And so that’s why we just really emphasize, you know, the prevention at the beginning, because it’s likely that there is more than one roaming Oak Ridge.”

Alongside first author and Ph.D. student Wenge Huang, Cheng's team collaborated with Oak Ridge National Lab and Dalian University of Technology for sections of the research.