Thermal

How To Improve Heat Sink Performance: Optimizing the Base

How To Improve Heat Sink Performance: Optimizing the Base

Heat Sink Bases: a Good Foundation for a Great Solution Heat sinks come in all shapes, sizes, styles, and materials. But a common feature with many heat sinks is the base: the part of the heat sink that contacts the device(s) and supports extra surface area, typically...
ThermoElectric Device Embedded Controller

ThermoElectric Device Embedded Controller

Applying Thermoelectric Devices in New Ways TEGway ThermoReal is a thermoelectric device embedded controller. TEGway has developed a way to generate a flexible array of miniature thermoelectric devices (TEDs). This flexible array of TEDs is powered in rows. This...
Everyday Thermals: Boiling Pot of Water

Everyday Thermals: Boiling Pot of Water

Something we do all the time is eat. And to eat we need to cook. Cooking is just a fun and artful method of heat transfer into edible products to make them more digestible and palatable. We’re going to train our thermal vision onto a pot of boiling water....
Extruded Heat Sinks: The Metal Version of Play Dough

Extruded Heat Sinks: The Metal Version of Play Dough

Extruded heat sinks are one of the most popular types of heat sinks. They’re easy to make in bulk, economical, and have fewer secondary operations before a final product than other heat sink technologies. That’s why the extrusion process is so widely used...
Heat Pipes versus Vapor Chambers: What’s the Difference?

Heat Pipes versus Vapor Chambers: What’s the Difference?

Two Phase Cooling Both heat pipes and vapor chambers utilize the same two phase cooling process. A liquid evaporates at the heat source and becomes a vapor. This vapor travels through the cavity of either the heat pipe or vapor chamber to a cooler place within the...