This latent heat can store a significant amount of energy in a material over a relatively small temperature change. This latent heat exists in solid-to-liquid phase changes as well, where it’s ...

The concept of phase-change recording is straightforward. An intense laser or current pulse heats and melts the crystalline material, which is subsequently quenched into the amorphous state.

Forget Roomba. How About A Robot That Warms And Cools Your House? With the help of built-in sensors and phase change material, of course.

Developed by Stanford Ovshinsky, reknowned for his inventions in memories and solar panels, "phase change RAM" (PRAM, PCRAM) and "chalcogenide RAM" (C-RAM) are other names for phase change memory ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW ...