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Published online 16 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010322-1
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Cold chips shrink horizons
Miniature refrigerators chill microelectronics.
Refrigerators the size of a grain of dust could soon chill silicon chips as they pulse with electrical currents. A team of scientists in California has made 'microcoolers' less than a twentieth of a millimetre across that can be built onto chips to stop them overheating -- one of the barriers to further miniaturization.
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