Low Temperature Electronics workshop

Interest in cool and cold electronics has increased markedly over the last five years. The benefits of low temperature operation have long been known, but until recently, efforts to commercialize moderate to high volume applications, such as high performance computing, employing high capacity chilling systems have universally failed. Powerful and simple cooling approaches combined with an increasing need for speed have reawakened interest in low temperature applications. The SEMITHERM Low Temperature Electronics workshop addresses the critical areas of cost effective cooling and issues associated with the application of chilling within high performance computers. Detailed discussions of below-ambient cooling of two commercially available computers, an enterprise server and a 1 GHz personal computer clearly overview the state-of-the-art. Efforts underway to develop smaller and colder cooling systems are also overviewed