Heat Spreading Calculations Using Thermal Circuit Elements Bruce Guenin, Associate Technical Editor Introduction In electronics cooling applications, there are numerous changes of scale from the chip level to the system level. This is characteristic of…read more
Heat Spreading Calculations Using Thermal Circuit Elements
August 1st, 2008
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Heat Spreading: Not a Trivial Problem
May 1st, 2008
Introduction Heat spreading is essentially area enlarging: the larger the area, the more heat can be removed at the same temperature difference (subject to certain limits). Unfortunately, except for the simplest of cases, the equations…read more
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Exploring the Limits of Air Cooling
August 1st, 2006
Introduction Heat from electronic devices is an integral part of information processing, not a nuisance that can someday be eliminated. This is a physical principle that is independent of the device of information processing. However,…read more
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