A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it takes to blink. Led by aerospace engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials. As electronic … [Read more...]
New Catalog Released
Fujipoly announces an Aug. 16 release date for its new Thermal Interface Material and Elastomeric Connector product catalog. The free 52-page product overview and technical design guide includes installation suggestions, as well as detailed thermal performance and electrical conductivity data points. Several new pages of high-performance and low-cost thermal materials have … [Read more...]
How Thermal Conductivity Relates to Electrical Conductivity
Because the accurate determination of thermal conductivity is a demanding task (often not recognized by either designers or vendors), methods, based on the measurement of another physical property that is uniquely coupled to thermal conductivity, are very challenging. One such method is based on the so-called Wiedemann-Franz Law, which links the thermal conductivity to the … [Read more...]
