The first Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) announcement for 2017 by the US Department of Defense (DoD) is out and there is one topic of great interest to thermal management professionals: topic # N171-081 “High Performance Thermal Interface Material for Energy Storage Devices and Other Electronic Components” by the US Navy, which is seeking thermal interface materials … [Read more...]
Thermal Management in Body-Embedded Electronics
We are entering an era where electronics technology is increasingly being integrated with biological systems in vivo. These technology solutions interact with organs and skeletal-, muscular- and nervous-systems of biological entities through hybridization of disparate solutions that merge to serve a common purpose. Biohybrid systems that interface and thus enable the … [Read more...]
Thermal Management in Consumer-Grade Digital Cameras
The proliferation of digital cameras and their subsequent modular integration in mobile communication and hand-held devices has made today’s photography almost trivial. The latter, i.e., the integration in mobile and hand-held devices is largely made possible by advancements in imaging technology as well as miniaturizing optics and the requisite electronics. Most camera … [Read more...]
Thermoregulation Comfort Clothing Advance to Product Platforms
Electronics Cooling’s previous coverage of thermoregulation fabrics is further augmented by a very encouraging trend seen at the recent Wearables USA Conference held last week in Silicon Valley, CA. More than half a dozen companies showcased product design platforms that enable OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), ODMs (original device manufacturers), and makers alike to … [Read more...]
Cooling Technology Enables Fashion-Tech Wearable Products
In one of our previous blogs on Electronics Cooling of Humans, we highlighted some of the on-going research projects at various universities in the US sponsored by ARPA-E. These projects are expected to achieve a step-change in the cooling technology of wearable fabrics and the costs of manufacturing them. It is worth noting that prior to the effort sponsored by ARPA-E, thermal … [Read more...]
