nanocarpet

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noun

A carpet of carbon nanotubes used to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to heat sinks.

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Meanings

nounnanocarpet (plural nanocarpets)

plural nanocarpets

  1. engineeringA carpet of carbon nanotubes used to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where computer chips connect to heat sinks.

    In this paper, a plasmonic absorber consisting of a metal-dielectric-metal stack with a top layer of Sierpinski nanocarpet is theoretically investigated.

    2016, Ali Eshaghian, Sajjad AbdollahRamezani, Ata Chizari, Khashayar Mehrany, “Broadband, Polarization-insensitive and Wide-angle Optical Absorber based on Fractal Plasmonics”, in arXiv

Origin

From nano- + carpet.

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