Researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away. The approach could lead to new solid-state cooling technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed into a small space that current methods can’t remove heat quickly enough.
This could turn out to be important for future smartphones and other computers. With more computing power in smaller and smaller devices, removing the heat from the microprocessor is beginning to limit how much power can be squeezed into a given space.
https://www.rtoz.org/2019/02/18/running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers/
[How does this compare to a Peltier device?
--Ed.]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 19 2019, @09:15PM (3 children)
Does it make the room darker?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 19 2019, @09:20PM
Not if the room is already at absolute dark.
I'm now going to run a resistor in reverse polarity to increase current flow in the circuit.
What happens to the temperature if I put the reverse polarity LED in series with the reverse polarity resistor?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday February 19 2019, @10:08PM (1 child)
Yes, unless the room is at absolute dark, as DannyB has pointed out. (Obviously).
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday February 19 2019, @11:26PM
You gotta have pretty good night vision to go around hooking up LEDs and resisters in the dark, don't you?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..