Abstract Light-weight materials are commonly used in high-rise buildings to reduce the building weight, but their thermal inertia will increase fluctuation of air-conditioning and heating load indoor comfort. Phase-Change Material (PCM) is employed improve behavior by latent storage, its location has obvious impact on improvement light-weight wall. According this condition, taking common multi-...

Phase change memory (PCM) technology appears as more scalable than DRAM technology. As PCM exhibits access time slightly longer but in the same range as DRAMs, several recent studies have proposed to use PCMs for designing main memory systems. Unfortunately PCM technology suffers from a limited write endurance; typically each memory cell can be only be written a large but still limited number o...

The general context of this work concerns the latent heat storage (cold storage) by encapsulated spherical nodules of 7.7 cm in diameter containing a Phase Change Material (PCM) and filling a cylindrical tank (about 2500 nodules per m3). During the storage process, a cold heat transfer liquid flows through the tank to crystallize the PCM inside the nodules. The stored energy is released when a ...

Latent heat storage using phase change materials (PCMs) is one of the most efficient methods to store thermal energy. Therefore, PCM have been applied to increase thermal energy storage capacity of different systems. The use of PCM provides higher heat storage capacity and more isothermal behaviour during charging and discharging compared to sensible heat storage. Moreover, thermal energy stora...

The temperature control of the agricultural greenhouse is important issue and to sudden temperature, changes during growing plants are one problems that need be controlled. Temperature can achieved in greenhouses established with novel technological systems, but these systems expensive requires technical knowledge infrastructure. In this study, a seasonal thermal energy storage using Phase Chan...

Thermal Energy Storage (TES) materials, such as Phase Change Materials (PCMs) are proven to enhance the energy efficiency in many fields, automotive and building sectors, which correspond most intensive ones. Shape-stabilized PCM cascade procedures overcome important barriers when PCMs applied since need be encapsulated for their technical use: leakage of liquid phase, corrosion, low heat trans...

Plasmonic lithography may become a mainstream nanofabrication technique in the future. Experimental results show that feature size with 22 nm resolution can be achieved by plasmonic lithography. In the experiment, a plasmonic lens (PL) is used to focus the laser energy with resolution much higher than the diffraction limit and features are created in the thermally sensitive phase-change materia...