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Microfluidics: DARPA Is Betting Embedded Water Droplets Could Cool Next-gen Chips

April 7, 2016

It’s general knowledge that heat is a significant problem with modern microprocessors. Intel and AMD have collectively held the line at 140W maximum TDP (thermal design power) for the past decade, with a few SKUs tiptoeing up to 150 or [more...]

Microfluidics, Could Soon Cool Your Clothes

December 2, 2015

THE idea came to Ralph Liedert while he was sweltering in the Californian sunshine, having been standing with his daughter for over an hour in a queue for a ride at Disneyland. What, he thought, if his T-shirt had a cooling system he could [more...]

Liquid Cooling Moves Onto The Chip for Denser Electronics

October 5, 2015

Liquid cooling ports: Liquid ports carry cooling water to specially designed passages etched into the backs of FPGA devices to provide more effective cooling. The liquid cooling provides a significant advantage in computing throughput. [more...]

Can Small Go Big? Microfluidics Aid Quest for Artificial Photosynthesis

June 4, 2015

In this microfluidic water electrolysis device, the channels in which oxygen and hydrogen are generated by splitting water are separated by a chemically inert wall (red). The conduction of protons from one channel to the other, which is [more...]

A Biosensing Chip Placed Under The Skin for More Precise Medicine

May 28, 2015

This biosensing chip has been created by researchers in EPFL’s Integrated Systems Laboratory. (Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL) The future of medicine lies in ever greater precision, not only when it comes to diagnosis but also drug [more...]

IBM Researchers Try to Build Thermal Management Into Microfluidic Chip Designs

April 19, 2015

Microelectronics experts at IBM Corp. are taking the next step in a U.S. military research program to design convective or evaporative microfluidic cooling directly into microchip designs and packaging. Officials of the U.S. Air Force [more...]

Inkjet-printed Nanoparticle Liquid Metal Could Bring Wearable Tech, Soft Robotics

April 9, 2015

This artistic rendering depicts electronic devices created using a new inkjet-printing technology to produce circuits made of liquid-metal alloys for “soft robots” and flexible electronics. Elastic technologies could make [more...]

Microfluidic Diamond Sensor

March 2, 2015

A diamond nanocrystal (white object to the right of center) is used to map the magnetic field around a particle (red object at center). The particle floats in a shallow bath of ionic liquid. The particle can be moved about (dotted [more...]

Microfluidics Makes Physical Keys Bubble Up From The Surface of a Touch Screen- $149 Phorm iPad Mini case

February 22, 2015

Tactus is still exploring tablets and mobile phones with the reappearing keyboard built into the screens ( Image Credit: James Martin/CNET) At first glance, Phorm looks like any another Apple iPad Mini case. But if you push its large [more...]

An integrated CMOS quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction lab-on-chip for point-of-care diagnostics

September 9, 2014

Considerable effort has recently been directed toward the miniaturization of quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction (qPCR) instrumentation in an effort to reduce both cost and form factor for point-of-care applications. Considerable gains [more...]