Ceramic Computers
Wednesday May 10, 2006
As computing power increases, heat becomes a factor. Fans used in computers have trouble controlling the temperature of smaller computer chips. British scientists have proposed using ceramic materials like zirconate-titanate to create a cooling field within the chips. At 428 degrees Fahrenheit, the material cools by 20 degrees when a voltage is applied. Such properties may allow the smaller chips to keep from overheating, though scientists are unsure as to why the materials exhibit this property.
This isn't the only recent news on ceramics - a recent paper in Science indicates that ceramics may be useful in creating fuel cells because of their ability to conduct electricity at lower temperatures than current solid-oxide fuel cells.
whats the latest application of ceramic-polymer composite. may these are of piezoelectric class or pyro or ferroelectric. Please tell me the application of composite.
Rakesh,
I’m not terribly well versed in the subject, but a Google search on “ceramic-polymer composite” showed a number of articles (including a patent). Several of the articles were from 2001, when it looks like there was a flurry of activity on the subject, but I didn’t find much that was more recent than that. I do know that there’s some interesting work in piezoelectrics and I’ll probably be posting on the subject at some point in the future. When I do so, I’ll see if I can find any information on their relation to ceramic-polymer composites.