News tagged with heat spreader

Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Keeping electronics cool: Findings on modified form of graphene could have impacts in managing heat dissipation

A University of California, Riverside engineering professor and a team of researchers have made a breakthrough discovery with graphene, a material that could play a major role in keeping laptops and other electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Imec demonstrates 3D integrated DRAM-on-logic for low-power mobile applications

Imec and its 3D integration partners have proven the potential of 3D integration of a commercial DRAM chip on top of a logic IC for next-generation low-power mobile applications. Imec’s applied 3D EDA ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Webb sunshield like an umbrella on the shores of the Universe (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The James Webb Space Telescope has a unique shield to protect its sensitive instruments from the heat and light of the sun. The sunshield is like an umbrella popping open on the shores of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hot new material can keep electronics cool: Few atomic layers of graphene reveal unique thermal properties

Professor Alexander Balandin and a team of UC Riverside researchers, including Chun Ning Lau, an associate professor of physics, have taken another step toward new technology that could keep laptops and other electronic devices ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 10, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Elpida Ready to Launch World's Largest Capacity (16-Gigabyte) FB-DIMM

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity FB-DIMM. Based on its ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 06, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Rensselaer Researchers Develop Heat Spreader for Epileptic Seizure Treatment Device

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers are developing a tiny, highly efficient heat spreader to be used in a new device to be implanted in the brain of patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures. ...

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created Jul 26, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liquid cooling with microfluidic channels helps computer processors beat the heat

Integrated onto the backs of chips A new technique for fabricating liquid cooling channels onto the backs of high-performance integrated circuits could allow denser packaging of chips while providing bette ...

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created Jun 21, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Crucial Technology Launches BALLISTIX TRACER Memory

New high-performance memory features activity-indicating LEDs and ground-effects LEDs Crucial Technology, a division of Micron and one of the world's leading direct memory upgrade providers, today introduces Crucial Ba ...

Electronics /

created Dec 04, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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