Sentences with phrase «if phonons»

Look, if phonons confuse you, forget the solid wire.

Paul Birch says «Look, if phonons confuse you, forget the solid wire.

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If even a small amount of energy from phonons (the sound units that carry the energy through the germanium or silicon, much as photons are the units of light) hit the detector, it can be enough to make the device lose superconductivity and register a potential dark matter event through a device called a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.

For example, if an engineer desires a material with certain thermal properties, the mean free path distribution could serve as a blueprint to design specific «scattering centers» within the material — locations that prompt phonon collisions, in turn scattering heat propagation, leading to reduced heat carrying ability.