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Helping chips to keep their cool

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 214–215 (2009)Cite this article

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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