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Rice researchers change graphene to help channel heat away from electronics.
A few nanoscale adjustments may be all that is required to make graphene-nanotube junctions excel at transferring heat, according to Rice University scientists.
The Rice lab of theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson found that putting a cone-like "chimney" between the graphene and nanotube all but eliminates a barrier that blocks heat from escaping.
Heat is transferred through phonons, quasiparticle waves that also transmit sound. The Rice theory offers a strategy to channel damaging heat away from next-generation nano-electronics.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 16 2017, @07:01PM
I suppose once that many cores, even small ones, are built into a chip, the issues of removing heat once again start to become significant.
Every performance optimization is a grate wait lifted from my shoulders.