BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 31 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
In a hotel lobby in West Palm Beach, Florida, Assistant Professor Karthik Srinivasan was reviewing a conference presentation slide with his graduate student, Miguel Mancias, when something caught his eye. The slide noted that commercial inductors marketed as "high-temperature" rarely operated above 250 degrees Celsius.
When Srinivasan asked why, his student had a simple answer: no one had looked past the Curie temperature, the point at which magnetic materials lose their magnetism entirely.
"That's when it struck me that we'd been looking at this problem from a single lens," Srinivasan said. "We needed to start looking at how we prevent the high temperatur...