Chip manufacturers are facing the problem of power and heat in devices embedding their chips. Companies are facing the problem of thermal management as they continue to churn out smaller devices. Now nanotechnology comes into the picture and carbon nanotubes can be integrated for solving this problem. Heat has been found out to cause reduced product life, increasing building costs, poor performance and lack of consumer acceptance.
In order to bring down temperatures researchers have found out that nnaotubes could be used for dissipating chip heat as effectively as copper. Nanotubes were found out to be more resilient, flexible and ten times lighter as compared to other cooling materials available in the market. A team of U.S. and Finnish researchers have developed nanotube heat sinks which can be manufactured cost effectively. It is expected that there would be a tough competition among research groups around the globe for developing one of the most effective and efficient CNT coolers.
Via nanowerk
