The Datacenter Quandary Two significant challenges facing datacenter operators today are increased power and cooling costs [1]. In a recent survey of datacenter operators, 38% of respondents said they considered both power and cooling as…read more
en Route to a Greener Thermal Technology
February 1st, 2008
It’s no surprise. Power levels in the data center keep rising. In fact, the cost of powering the computers in the data center is beginning to exceed the cost of the computers themselves. The computer…read more
Estimating Thermal Resistance For Fin-To-Fin Thermal Couplers
February 1st, 2008
Introduction Most readers of ElectronicsCooling magazine are familiar with the use of fins to increase convective heat transfer area to achieve a lower thermal resistance from a component to the cooling fluid. This Calculation Corner…read more
Thermal Modeling Approaches Of GaAs Semiconductors
February 1st, 2008
Introduction Predicting gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor temperature is imperative since it affects the performance and reliability of the chip and the design as a whole. In many circumstances, the thermal engineer will be asked to…read more
Thermal Properties Of Building Materials
February 1st, 2008
Previous Technical Data columns have covered thermal properties for many of the materials that are common to electronics packaging. The Technical Data for this issue is broader in scope and addresses common building materials, some…read more
Thermo-Reflectance Thermography For Submicron Temperature Measurements
February 1st, 2008
The primary approach to maintaining the aggressive progress in the microelectronics industry has been to increase the density of elementary transistors and to reduce the size of their active areas. As a result, the removal…read more
Modeling Air-Cooled Heat Sinks As Heat Exchangers
February 1st, 2008
Introduction The thermal resistance of a heat sink is a convenient way of describing its performance but, unlike its electrical counterpart, the thermal resistance of a heat sink is not a constant: it changes significantly…read more
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