{"id":211796,"date":"2025-04-18T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/crystal-based-cooling-could-keep-future-gadgets-from-overheating"},"modified":"2025-04-18T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:41:18","slug":"crystal-based-cooling-could-keep-future-gadgets-from-overheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/crystal-based-cooling-could-keep-future-gadgets-from-overheating","title":{"rendered":"Crystal-based cooling could keep future gadgets from overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/crystal-based-cooling-could-keep-future-gadgets-from-overheating2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m writing this from a laptop that\u2019s stalling and refusing to switch between tabs because it\u2019s gotten too warm in the early Indian summer. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m running a hectic workload of video and audio editing tools and multiple browsers at once: this old machine just can\u2019t move heat away from the processor and other internals quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>That results in throttling, or reducing the clock speed at high temperatures, in order to prevent overheating and damage to the internal components. But a new finding from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science could make that a thing of the past \u2013 with crystals.<\/p>\n<p>When electronic components like the processor in your laptop are working at full tilt, they can get pretty hot. The same can be said for chips in a range of other devices, and even batteries in electric cars. Now, if these components are squashed into tight spaces, you\u2019re going to see heat build up there and take a long time to dissipate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing this from a laptop that\u2019s stalling and refusing to switch between tabs because it\u2019s gotten too warm in the early Indian summer. It\u2019s not like I\u2019m running a hectic workload of video and audio editing tools and multiple browsers at once: this old machine just can\u2019t move heat away from the processor and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}