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Helping chips to keep their cool

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As the removal of excess heat becomes increasingly important in semiconductor devices, localized thermoelectric cooling might be the answer to the problem of hotspots.

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Figure 1: Performance and power trends in the microelectronics industry.

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  1. Arun Majumdar is in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. majumdar@me.berkeley.edu,

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Majumdar, A. Helping chips to keep their cool. Nature Nanotech 4, 214–215 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.65

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