{"id":231962,"date":"2026-02-23T22:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/diamond-owl-swoops-in-with-new-method-to-keep-electronics-cool"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:37:03","slug":"diamond-owl-swoops-in-with-new-method-to-keep-electronics-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/diamond-owl-swoops-in-with-new-method-to-keep-electronics-cool","title":{"rendered":"Diamond owl swoops in with new method to keep electronics cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUJZ1wBF-7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At Rice University, a research lab\u2019s signature keepsake has helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces that could help decrease operating temperatures in electronics by 23 degrees Celsius. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/apl\/article\/128\/8\/081901\/3380893\/Scalable-selective-area-diamond-growth-for-thermal\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Applied Physics Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the world of electronics, heat is the enemy,\u201d said Xiang Zhang, assistant research professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice and a first author on the study. \u201cA reduction of 23 C is significant\u2014it can extend the lifespan of a device and allow it to run faster without overheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heat management is one of the major challenges facing today\u2019s high-power technologies, from the gallium nitride transistors used in radar and 5G devices to the processing units powering the data center infrastructure that supports artificial intelligence. Diamond outshines most other materials when it comes to handling heat, but its hardness makes it difficult to work with. Growing diamond in technology-relevant forms is particularly challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Rice University, a research lab\u2019s signature keepsake has helped perfect a method for growing patterned diamond surfaces that could help decrease operating temperatures in electronics by 23 degrees Celsius. The paper is published in the journal Applied Physics Letters. \u201cIn the world of electronics, heat is the enemy,\u201d said Xiang Zhang, assistant research professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,269,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231962","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}