While some homeowners buy curtains for aesthetic purposes alone, or to just provide a small amount of extra shade in the home, thermal and blackout curtains can provide even more benefits.

In the future, detectors based on arrays of tiny optical resonators could lead to sensitive, rapid, thermal imaging at room temperature. The advent of high-quality-factor (high-Q) micrometre-scale ...

They conclude that thermal stress is the decisive factor in the degradation of metal-halide perovskites. Based on this, they derive the most promising strategies to increase the long-term ...