The Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), Electronics Research Department (ERD), is seeking research proposals on two technical topics. Application can be found below TRINA, established in 2008, is a R&D center of Toyota located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. TRINA aims to strengthen Toyota's advanced research function throughout … [Read more...]
Researcher Finds Cheaper Way To Cool Electronic Devices
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...]
Thermally Conductive Grease Used for Solar Industry
A product that is proving useful to the solar industry is LORD Corporation’s TC-501 Thermally Conductive Grease. This solvent-free, silicone thermal interface material (TIM) is designed to replace greases used as TIMs between the heat spreader and the heat sink (commonly known as TIM2). It provides high thermal conductivity and low thermal resistance for applications where … [Read more...]
Integrated Heat Pipe Spreader for Improved FBDIMM Memory Module Thermal Management
Introduction Due to the increasing power density in today's industry standard servers, thermal design and cooling is a significant challenge. In a typical server, the two most challenging elements to cool are the processors and the memory modules. The system level fan speeds are directly dictated (in most cases) by both processor and memory temperatures. Due to the fact that … [Read more...]
Diamonds are a Thermal Designer's Best Friends
Different forms of carbon, such as processed natural graphite, pyrolytic graphite, diamond-like carbon, and synthetic diamond, offer lots of possibilities for maximizing conductive heat transfer.Synthetic diamond has already found its place as a common solution for heat spreaders inside semiconductor laser components, where temperature stabilization is of utmost importance for … [Read more...]
