Binghamton University faculty member Bahgat Sammakia received the 2010 ITherm Achievement Award during the 12th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems in honor of his contributions to electronics, thermal and thermomechanical research, as well as his service to the electronics thermal management community. Sammakia, director of … [Read more...]
Thermoelectricity: Turning Temperature Differences Directly into Electricity
The fundamental problem in creating efficient thermoelectric materials is that they need to be good at conducting electricity, but not at conducting thermal energy, say Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers. That way, one side can get hot while the other gets cold, instead of the material quickly equalizing the temperature. But in most materials, electrical … [Read more...]
Nearly Back to Business as Usual
I’ve not posted for a while, which is rather remiss of me. I underestimated the response we would get to our Heatsink 201 webinar, which I gather was our most popular ever, and the number of questions that people would ask. I had around 120 questions, which after removing duplicates and those to do with logistics ended up at around 80, so it took a while to answer them all. … [Read more...]
The art of modelling using CFD. Part V – Grid
Any simulation technology based on an approach of subdividing a 3D model into many tessellated control volumes (e.g. the finite volume method) will be affected by the shape and size of those ‘mesh cells’ or ‘grid’. How fine should the mesh be to resolve the physics of the model being simulated? Good question. I used to ask my art teacher how to draw … [Read more...]
Heat Sink Reliability Risks from Thermal Greases
ATS Thermal Labs has published a white paper, “Long term Thermal Grease Reliability.” It considers how long term heat sink reliability is affected by the use of thermal greases as thermal interface materials. The implications are very important as they will affect the MTBF of electronic equipment. Read the paper from ATS Thermal Labs. … [Read more...]
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