At the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs. Of the three technology focus areas destined to receive funding, one of interest to ElectronicsCooling readers involves … [Read more...]
International Conference on High Temperature Electronics (HiTEC 2010)
May 11-13, Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, N.M. HiTEC 2010 provides a comprehensive technical program addressing the applications, and the latest development in devices, circuits, MEMS, sensors, packaging, power sources, and materials to address the challenges of the applications for high temperature electronics. Learn more. … [Read more...]
Handbook Provides Tutorial for Thermoelectric Module Operation
Laird Technologies, Inc. has released its revised “Thermoelectric Handbook.” Available for download from the Laird website, the handbook provides insight into understanding the basic structure and function of TEMs, parameters required for device selection, assembly tips for mounting TEMs onto heat exchangers, and available temperature control options. Designed for engineers … [Read more...]
Laser Cooling Demonstrated for TO-Can Packages
Nextreme Thermal Solutions has demonstrated the cooling of a laser diode in a TO-8 package using an embedded thin-film thermoelectric OptoCooler HV14 module. Cooling the laser improves the output performance and reliability of the device. To illustrate the benefits for cooling a laser with an embedded thermoelectric cooler (TEC), Nextreme mounted a laser diode on the active … [Read more...]
The Better Box Model
Introduction For the consumer, natural convection cooling or fan-less cooling is the method of choice. It is silent, it is reliable, it is simple, and it is environmentally sound because no additional energy is used to remove the excess heat. For the thermal engineer, fan-less cooling is more problematic. On the plus side, no fan is needed, so there is an attractive cost … [Read more...]