New technology might prevent laptops from overheating
It involves the way information is processed
In recent years, overheating notebooks have become a major problem. Many users demand powerful mobile PC’s but the price they pay might turn out to be very high with known cases of burning hard drives and laptops on fire. In addition, with the decrease in size of these devices overheating becomes even more palpable.
Reportedly, scientists Professor Jairo Sinova from Texas A&M University and colleagues of his from Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, Institute of Physics ASCR, University of Cambridge and University of Nottingham has developed a new way of not overheating laptops and thus finding a solution to the serious issue.
Professor Sinova said in the Journal Nature Physics that it becomes a headache to manage to cool notebooks as they are becoming more powerful but at the same time getting smaller in size.
“The crux of the problem is the way information is processed. Laptops and some other devices use flows of electric charge to process information, but they also produce heat,” he explained.
“Theoretically, excessive heat may melt the laptop,” Sinova added. “This also wastes a considerable amount of energy,”
Allegedly, the Professor came to the corollary that in order to fix the issue a new way of processing the information has to be developed.
“Our research looks at the spin of electrons, tiny particles that naked eyes cannot detect,” he explained. “The directions they spin can be used to record and process information.”
Professor Sinova explained that the device they have designed would inject the electrons with spin pointing in a particular direction according to the information, which has to be processed. Then, the electrons will be transmitted to another place in the device with the spin still surviving. Eventually the spin direction could be measured via a voltage that the electrons produce.
“Transmission is no problem. You can think for comparison that if the old devices could only transmit the information to several hundred feet away, with our device, information can be easily transmitted to hundreds of miles away,” Sinova said. Moreover, this technology can have “a lot of real practical potential”
Apparently, we may soon be able to enjoy both powerful and slim notebooks without worrying too much about overheating.
