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A Heat Switch for Controlling Heat Flow Path in Electronic Systems
A switch is a fundamental part of most electrical and mechanical devices; mechanical switches can be used to select gears in a car's transmission or used to unlock a door; electrical switches can turn the lights in a room on and off; semiconductor uses to route logic signals within a...
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Thermal design: Get the heat out of the electronics
Paul Rako@ edn.com discuss about thermal design in electronics and how to design your board to dissipate it effectively. If you have high-powered LEDS, or a power supply, or are trying to control larger motors, you have to get a lot of heat out of your circuit boards. The classic way...
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Lightweight Body Heat – Electricity Converter
Powering wearable technologies using thermoelectric generators (TEGs) is becoming more efficient. An undergraduate student in North Carolina University, Haywood Hunter, is producing a lightweight and an efficient wearable thermoelectric generator. It generates electricity by making use of...
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