I wonder if the improvements for the aluminum heatsink might be applicable to other situations like cpu/gpu heatsinks or other places where cooling is needed. It seems like it might be economical.
I wonder if the improvements for the aluminum heatsink might be applicable to other situations like cpu/gpu heatsinks or other places where cooling is needed. It seems like it might be economical.
Cars are an obvious application.
Some parts get very hot, and any electricity produced without engine or fuel add to range / efficiency.
I caught that as well. Further reading it looks like they had a ~2x improvement over a flat aluminium sheet (Which itself performed worse then the bare TEG). And of that improvement about half came from radiative cooling.
So my very hot take is that a conventional forced air finned radiator treated with this laser process would show an improvement, it is unlikely to be economically viable versus just using a bigger radiator (at desktop/server CPU/GPU scales). At laptop scales it might be more viable given space constraints.