A North Carolina State University researcher has developed a technique that uses a “heat spreader” made of a copper-graphene composite, which is attached to the electronic device using an indium-graphene interface film, both of which have higher thermal conductivity, allowing the device to cool efficiently. Dr. Jag Kasichainula, an associate professor of materials science and … [Read more...]
The US, Japan, and China Lead Grid Storage Market in 2017
Despite regulatory uncertainty, a highly-fragmented global market, and a risk-averse client base, the demand for energy storage on the grid will zoom to $113.5 billion in 2017, from a $2.8 billion market in 2012, reaching 185.4 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of capacity from 3.2 GWh, according to a Lux Research report. Lux Research analysts developed a dynamic Grid Storage Demand … [Read more...]
Ohmite Manufacturing Acquires Wakefield Solutions
Ohmite Manufacturing, a provider of resistors for high current, high voltage and high energy applications, recently announced that its corporate parent, Heico Company LLC, has acquired Wakefield Solutions. The acquisition of Wakefield, a designer and manufacturer of thermal management solutions and aluminum extrusions for numerous industries, complements Ohmite’s selection of … [Read more...]
Ten Common Data Center Surprises
Emerson Network Power released a list of 10 common surprises for data center and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. Those high-density predictions finally are coming true: After rapid growth early in the century, projections of double-digit rack densities have been slow to come to fruition. Average densities hovered between 6.0 and 7.4 kW per rack … [Read more...]
'Nanorefrigerator' Cooled By Sunlight
Researchers in Belgium have drawn up plans for an electronic "nanorefrigerator" device that is driven by high-energy photons, and could, therefore, potentially be directly powered by the sun. The device consists of two electrodes, one of which is cooled by replacing hot electrons with cool ones via photon absorption. While this is not the first system that applies the "cooling … [Read more...]
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