Power densities in electronic subsystems continue to increase, driving demand for more extreme cooling power alternatives that increasingly include liquid cooling as a viable candidate. To optimize thermal management efficiency, sustainability and reliability, designers of systems that use liquid cooling are exploring innovative combinations of component materials, including … [Read more...]

The previous articles in this series [1, 2] described how the mean and standard deviations of a set of data are calculated and how they can be used to estimate the characteristics of a population using the normal distribution. Since measured data typically represents only a subset of an entire population, one should recognize that the estimated mean and standard deviation … [Read more...]

Authored by Ross Wilcoxon and Genevieve Martin Associate Technical Editors for Electronics Cooling   For a number of reasons, including cost, simplicity, power consumption, noise, etc., natural convection is the preferred approach for cooling electronic systems. However, it is often the case that natural convection is simply not sufficient to remove dissipated power … [Read more...]