Encouraged by silicon carbide’s superior material properties, major automotive manufacturers involved in developing hybrid and electric vehicles are currently testing SiC-based MOSFETs and other transistors as a viable alternative to silicon-based transistors, particularly for under-the-hood applications where the operating conditions are challenging. The wide-bandgap material … [Read more...]
Server Failures Don’t Rise Along With the Heat
Researchers at the University of Toronto, who studied data on equipment failures at data centers operated by Google, Los Alamos National Labs, and Canada’s SciNet HPC consortium, conclude that the effect of high data center temperatures on system reliability is smaller than often assumed. For DRAM failures and node outages, no evidence for a correlation with higher … [Read more...]
Researchers Improve Infrared Detectors
A team of researchers from Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Duke University is harnessing the remarkable properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) to create highly sensitive, “uncooled” photovoltaic infrared detectors. This new type of detector may prove useful for industrial, military, manufacturing, optical communications, and scientific … [Read more...]
Rehm Thermal Systems Appoints New Sales Director
Rehm Thermal Systems has appointed Michael Hanke as its new head of worldwide sales. Hanke brings to RTS over 20 years of experience in the electronics and semiconductor production sector. Hanke successfully completed his studies in electrical engineering, and has held international executive posts in construction, as well as sales and service roles within the electronics and … [Read more...]
Graphene-Graphite “Quilt” Removes and Spreads Heat from Hot Spots
A group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a technique to keep cool a semiconductor material used in everything from traffic lights to electric cars. Gallium Nitride (GaN), a semiconductor material found in bright lights since the 1990s, is used in wireless applications due to its high efficiency and high … [Read more...]
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