{"id":87713,"date":"2019-02-13T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers"},"modified":"2019-02-13T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:04:04","slug":"running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers","title":{"rendered":"Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/running-an-led-in-reverse-could-cool-future-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away.<\/p>\n<p>The approach could lead to new solid-state <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cooling\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cooling<\/a> technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed into a small space that current methods can\u2019t remove heat quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated a second method for using photons to cool devices,\u201d said Pramod Reddy, who co-led the work with Edgar Meyhofer, both professors of mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-reverse-cool-future.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-reverse-cool-future.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers at the University of Michigan ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away. The approach could lead to new solid-state cooling technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}