New Electronics

Pin fin heat sinks point the way to more efficient cooling

In recent years, increases in processing power mean advanced semiconductor devices now dissipate astounding levels of power. For many applications, cooling these devices has become a major challenge.
EDN

Pin-fin heat sinks: A cool alternative

http://www.coolinnovations.comAs dissipated heat loads continue to rise, engineers seek increasingly efficient heat sinks. The efficiency of various heat sink ...
Machine Design

Cooling the pin-fin way

Increasing the processing power of electronic equipment often means that more transistors have to be squeezed into tighter packages. And higher circuit densities increase the amount of heat that must ...
Electronic Design

For More Efficient Cooling, Try Splayed Pin-Fin Heatsinks

The immense processing power generated by today’s cutting-edge ICs enables engineers to design extremely powerful applications. Unfortunately, the higher processing power comes with a dramatic ...
Electronic Design

Selecting Pin Fin Heat Sinks for Surface Mount Devices

TODAY'S CUTTING EDGE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS DISSIPATE SUBSTANTIALLY HEAVIER LOADS OF HEAT THAN EVER BEFORE. At the same time, the premium associated with miniaturized applications has never been greater, ...
EDN

Flared-pin heat sinks use natural convection to cool “green” applications

Cool Innovations has introduced a line of flared-pin fin heat sinks featuring an array of sparsely configured round pins that slant outward, a configuration that cools components in natural convection ...