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Although heat removal in electronics at room temperature is typically governed by a hierarchy of conduction and convection phenomena, heat dissipation in cryogenic electronics can face a fundamental limit analogous to that of black-body emission of electromagnetic radiation.

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Figure 1: Temperature dependence of the mean free paths of phonons in a variety of substrate materials5,6,7.

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  1. Jungwan Cho and Kenneth E. Goodson are in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA,

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