Papers in the Pipeline: Simulating New Materials

Designing things like LEDs and transistors has, for a long time, been an arduous process of trial and error, but that could be changing soon, thanks in part to a technique developed by physicists at SUNY-Buffalo.In a paper that's just been accepted for publication by Physical Review E, the materials scientists describe a "harmonically mapped averaging" method of simulation that allows the thermal properties of a material to be accounted for, overcoming one of the major hurdles to efficient, pre...