New nanoscale cooling element works in electrical insulators as well
Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 05:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —Researchers from the FOM Foundation, the University of Groningen, Delft University of Technology and Tohoku University in Japan have designed a miniscule cooling element that uses spin waves to transport heat in electrical insulators. The cooling element could be used to dissipate heat in the increasingly smaller electrical components of computer chips. The researchers published their design online on 7 July 2014 in Physical Review Letters.