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Mersen Appoints New Vice President

February 17th, 2012

Mersen has named Roy Ball its VP Research & Development, USA/Mexico. Roy will be responsible for new product research and development and sustaining engineering. Roy holds a Masters Degree in Business and Manufacturing from the…read more

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Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures

February 10th, 2012

As with all good inventions, you quickly wonder how on earth you could have done without them before. Relieving thermal bottlenecks reduce temperatures; it’s so blindingly obvious. Now that we have the ability to visualise…read more

Research Company Names Top Thermal Management Supplier

February 7th, 2012

Thermacore was identified by BCC Research as one of the leading global suppliers in the rapidly growing thermal management technology market. When compiling its research report—Top 10 Thermal Management Companies and Emerging Transformative Technologies—BCC Research closely examined…read more

Thin-Film Thermoelectrics with Improved Cooling Efficiency

February 7th, 2012

Nextreme Thermal Solutions’ thin-film thermoelectric technology has achieved a 60.1°C temperature difference between its cold and hot sides at an ambient temperature of 24.7°C, bringing it on par with the performance of bulk thermoelectric technology.…read more

Temperature/Process Controller Panel CNI-CB120SB

February 7th, 2012

Omega introduces its new series CNI-CB120SB, a self-contained temperature control panel that provides a complete control system design, eliminating the need to select, collect and assemble separate components. The preconfigured panels are ready to install,…read more

New Version of Software for Modeling Data Centers

February 7th, 2012

Daat Research Corp has released v5.0 of its CoolitDC CFD thermal modeling software for data centers. Daat has increased preprocessor performance to permit building larger models in less time. CoolitDC v5.0 adds a new turbulence…read more

New Data Center Infrastructure Management Software

February 7th, 2012

Raritan introduced dcTrack® 2.6 DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software with new intelligent connectivity management capabilities to help data center professionals manage both network and power connections more efficiently. With better visibility of end-to-end connections…read more

Thermocouple Virtual Chart Recorder

February 7th, 2012

The NEWPORT® iTCX transmitter let’s you monitor temperature from two independent Thermocouple channels over an Ethernet network or the Internet with no special software except a Web Browser. The NEWPORT iTCX serves Active Web Pages…read more

Cooling Semiconductor with Laser Light

February 7th, 2012

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. Semiconductors are vital components in solar cells, LEDs and many other electronics, and the efficient cooling of components is…read more

Graphene as a Thermal Conductor

February 7th, 2012

Alexander Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, and researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Dallas and Xiamen University in China,…read more

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad

January 30th, 2012

‘Bits stuck onto other bits’, a succinct definition of an electronic product, if not a product that contains electronics. Soldering is the method of choice for getting the components to attach to the pcb, the…read more

Has Your Brand Image Been Hijacked?

January 25th, 2012

Electronics Cooling Business Bulletin Volume 6 | January 2012 In a recent article entitled “Who is Managing Your Brand Image?” my colleague, Graham Kilshaw, explained how customer behavior has effected a significant shift in marketing,…read more

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Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point

January 22nd, 2012

By far and away the most common enquiry by someone using FloTHERM, especially at the start of their adoption, is “How do I model my components?”. This is hardly surprising as the mainstay of electronics…read more

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

January 18th, 2012

Probably due to the beer fridge, I now seem to be becoming the repository of broken electronic products with an expectation that the cause of their demise can be identified, retrospectively, using thermal simulation. This…read more