Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 3 – Relieving Thermal Bottlenecks Reduce Temperatures

As with all good inventions, you quickly wonder how on earth you could have done without them before. Relieving thermal…

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad

‘Bits stuck onto other bits’, a succinct definition of an electronic product, if not a product that contains electronics. Soldering…

Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point

Bridging the Simulation Supply Chain; NXP Semiconductors, a Case in Point

By far and away the most common enquiry by someone using FloTHERM, especially at the start of their adoption, is…

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 1 – Great Thermal Bedfellows

Probably due to the beer fridge, I now seem to be becoming the repository of broken electronic products with an…

Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges

Emails, more Emails and Jeff Bridges

It’s estimated that, from a figure of 0.4% in 1995, now about 30% of the world’s population are ‘internet users’….

LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.

LEDs; The future’s bright and hot.

LED based lighting is now a very hot topic (believe me, in electronic thermal management circles that used to be…

From Megawatts to Milliwatts; sub-micron scale thermal modelling with FloTHERM

From Megawatts to Milliwatts; sub-micron scale thermal modelling with FloTHERM

Joseph Fourier led a full and interesting life. Apart from his obvious legacy of Fourier’s Law that relates the temperature…

What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.

What! All that just for that? The bonkers world of CPU cooling.

My colleague Ed and I were marvelling the other day at the CPU cooling unit from one of our training…

Ho, Ho, Ho! Facebook moves to Lapland

Ho, Ho, Ho! Facebook moves to Lapland

What do you call someone who doesn’t believe in Father Christmas? A rebel without a Claus. Right, that’s that out…