Heatsink technology has rapidly improved over the last few years. The introduction of heatpipes, use of large radius fans and the sophisticated mounting mechanisms have all aided these developments.

In materials science, thermal testing refers to the process of subjecting materials to analysis through thermal control in order to collect data on a wide range of properties. Generally, thermal ...

Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center (HATCI) and Forward Engineering North America LLC recently worked together to design a new method of testing thermal runaway performance in composite materials for ...

Due to their light weight and optimal mechanical properties, modern composite materials, such as carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP), are increasingly used in automotive, wind energy and ...

Increasingly complex and heterogeneous architectures, coupled with the adoption of high-performance materials, are making it much more difficult to identify and test for thermal issues in advanced ...

As the transistor density and switching speed of integrated circuits (ICs) increase and the package size decreases, the emerging generation of high-power ICs requires thermal management during testing ...

Mentor Graphics announced that JEDEC has approved a thermaltransient testing-based measurement methodology inspired by an original ideapublished jointly by the Mentor Graphics MicReD group and the ...

Learn how smartphone cooling systems use vapor chambers and heat dissipation to manage internal thermals, helping devices maintain performance under heavy use. Pixabay, rmartinr Smartphones have ...

Not long ago I had a conversation with a thermal engineer who was using a phase change pad as the thermal interface material (TIM) in a certain device. Some of the devices failed pre-maturely due to ...