Robust, low-cost sensor can monitor heat flow in devices to improve efficiency

https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-robust-low-cost-sensor-devices-efficiency.html

"cheap efficient safe robust cost efficient... magnetic iron and gallium heat flux sensor and electrodes for complex heat flow... anomalous Nernst effect (ANE), magnetic effect turns heat into electricity... flexible, output heat flux data in real time... rolling strong lightweight plastic sheet base layer with magnetic and electrode materials sputtered, etch patterns into film... boost ANE suppressing Seebeck effect... power generation, data centers, automated manufacturing, internal medical applications heat maps organs"

Related:

Flexible sensors made of nanomaterials—and the metaverse—will redefine how people live in the future
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-10-flexible-sensors-nanomaterialsand-metaversewill-redefine.html

Researchers demonstrated an all-electric approach for nanoscale vector magnetic sensing
https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=64542.php