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    • Cool Designs

    There are many ways to keep a design cool including heat pipes and vapor chambers
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    EC Fans Make Cooling More Efficient and Sustainable

    May 22, 2024
    Electronically commutated (EC) fans enhance electronics cooling while using significantly less power and, in turn, promoting energy efficiency.
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    Thermal-Monitoring "Tape" Helps EV Batteries Beat the Heat

    Jan. 25, 2024
    A unique peel-and-stick thermal sensor works to keep the high-voltage battery packs in EVs from overheating—and potentially from exploding into flames.
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    Startup Taps MEMS Cooling to Turn Down the Heat in Electronic Devices

    Oct. 19, 2023
    Frore Systems takes advantage of MEMS to blur the lines between active and passive cooling technology.
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    Heat Pipe Design Guidelines for Better Thermal Designs

    Aug. 18, 2023
    This presentation delves into heat pipes and vapor chambers that might benefit your application.
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    How to Achieve Higher Power Density and Better Thermal Performance in PSUs

    Jan. 3, 2023
    Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Shrinking power supplies inevitably leads to problems with heat. However, a multifaceted approach to mitigate these issues, including innovative...

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    Conformal-Copper Coating Transforms Component into Its Own Heat Spreader

    July 11, 2022
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    Thermal Management is Critical in Advanced Electronics

    March 31, 2022
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    Thermal Management: New Solutions for New Challenges

    May 22, 2020
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    What’s the Difference Between Heat Pipes and Vapor Chambers?

    Oct. 12, 2017
    Although both operate on the same basic principles, their manufacturing process and design flexibility are different. In fact, you can think of vapor chambers as large planar ...
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    Thermal-Designing Your Way to a Cooler High-Performance Tablet

    May 18, 2017
    In this real-world example, computational-fluid-dynamic software was used to simulate all packaging levels in a system design in order to minimize heat and improve acoustics.
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    Thermal-Management Design Banks On Advanced Materials/Adhesives

    May 30, 2013
    Advanced materials and adhesives are often the keys to effective thermal management. This article covers a wide variety of thermal interface materials and explains what design...
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    Metal in the Board: Meeting the Challenge of Digital Power

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    Simple design equations for thermoelectric coolers

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    Thermoelectric coolers (TECs) are versatile temperature control devices. They’re best thought of as solid-state heat pumps in which the direction and rate of heat flow can be ...