Editorial

• IBM designs energy-saving optical receiver with record transmission rates

  Teams of researchers have used complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (COMS) technology to produce a novel optical receiver that achieved aggregate bandwith of 160 Gb/s through four optical fibers. details>>

• ARM processors expected to beat the heat and add performance to Samsung DeX

  A review by AndroidCentral of the newly-released version of DeX dock from Samsung described a few issues from converting app software designed for phones to the larger screen of a laptop. details>>

• Graphene-based photonic devices show future of Datacom at Mobile World Congress

  At the recent GSMA Mobile World Congress the Graphene Flagship demonstrated the first all-graphene optical communication link that operates at 25 Gb/s and the first graphene-based photonic switches. details>>

• Modeling and simulations could improve battery life and performance

  A recent article explained that computer modeling and simulations can help engineers design more efficient batteries in electric vehicles by taking into consideration thermal management components. details>>

• Engineer describes design for oil-cooled crypto-currency miner

  Engineer Neil Birtles recently detailed his design for an oil-cooled crypto-currency miner for Verium, one of many new crypto-currency companies that has been developed in the wake of the success of bitcoin, in an article for Electronics Weekly. details>>

• Immersion cooling system could be used for next-gen EV batteries

  A recent blog post by Charles Morris of EVannex, which is an aftermarket retailer for Tesla parts, questioned whether or not the next generation of Tesla electric vehicles (EV) would use a novel immersion cooling system to optimize battery performance. details>>

• New thermal management system for railway car hybrid battery put to the test

  In January, Plasser & Theurer, an Austrian manufacturer of rail track maintenance and track laying machines, announced that its new thermal management system for the hybrid HTW 100 E3 tower car passed a test in the Climate Wind Channel at the Rail Tec Arsenal (RTA) in Vienna. details>>

• Accounting for thermal management of Wi-Fi front-end designs

  A recent article from Home Toys described the thermal challenges and solutions that are required for designing wireless access points or customer premises equipment, particularly at the component-level, as the Internet of Things (IoT) connects more household products together. details>>

• Thermal simulation tools help engineers with faster analysis of product designs

  A recent article from Electronic Design written by Tom Gregory, a product manager at Future Facilities as part of its 6SigmaET team, highlighted the challenges that engineers face when considering thermal management in an era of high component-density and increasing power demands and the enhanced tools that are available to assist the design process. details>>

• Professor receives NSF CAREER award to study multiscale phonon transport

  According to a report from Virginia Tech University (Blacksburg, Va.), assistant professor Zhiting Tian was the recent recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award to continue her work in thermal modeling to predict thermal transport properties. details>>