Thermoelectric Active Cooling Hot Spots in Chips


A technical paper titled “Thermoelectric active cooling for transient hot spots in microprocessors” was published by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract: "Modern microprocessor performance is limited by local hot spots induced at high frequency by busy integrated circuit elements such as the clock generator. Locally embedded thermoelectric ... » read more

Highly efficient modulation doping: A path toward superior organic thermoelectric devices


New academic paper from TU Dresden. Abstract "We investigate the charge and thermoelectric transport in modulation-doped large-area rubrene thin-film crystals with different crystal phases. We show that modulation doping allows achieving superior doping efficiencies even for high doping densities, when conventional bulk doping runs into the reserve regime. Modulation-doped orthorhombic rubr... » read more

Power/Performance Bits: May 27


Battery captures waste heat, converts it to electricity While vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants, researchers around the world have spent decades looking for ways to harness some of this wasted energy, according to engineering researchers at Stanford and MIT. They pointed out that most of these efforts have focused on thermoelectric d... » read more