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Solid-state cooler uses heat to make things cold

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Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Tsukuba created a solid-state cooling device using two shape-memory alloy films that converts waste heat directly into mechanical motion and then into cooling, potentially allowing hot electronics to recycle their own heat for temperature control.

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This is experimental technology; commercial applications and deployment timeline are not discussed in the article.

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