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Posts tagged with 'Contact Temperature'

Effusivity Smackdown or Standoff?

Posted Jul 8, 2009, by John Wilson

One our our engineers attended the short course “Thermal Management from an Industrial Point of View” at SEMI-THERM 25 last March presented by Clemens Lasance and Wendy Luiten.    One of the topics that I found really interesting from the course material was that related to contact temperatures.  More specifically, the contact temperature for two semi-infinite bodies, one of them being you.  After reading … Read More

Tags: Thermal Design, Consumer Electronics, Electronics Cooling, Thermal Transient, Contact Temperature, Effusivity