The Next Generation of PC's, Laptops and Gaming Consoles.
Possible new method to cool down Processors, Graphics Cards and Network Connectors.
Everyone knows that overheating in a PC or Console slows down performance. Incoherent light from the sun or from an LED could cool a small object, according to two theory papers.
How Incoherent Light would work is rather simple. LED's emitting Incoherent Light would help cool down the inside of the PC or Console.
Components of the PC or Gaming Console that are kept cooler then they are now means faster and more powerful Processors, Graphics Cards and Network Adapters can be designed that would otherwise burn out due to overclocking.
I would even go so far as to say that the method described below could turn into cool, warm and hot logic gates that would create an increase in processing speed based on temperature of the current passing through the logic gate.
Soaking up energy. When an incoherent light beam with frequency ωb (coming from an LED or other source) strikes a mirror oscillating at frequency ωc, the interaction can remove heat from the mirror in the form of light at frequency ωa, the sum of the other two frequencies. Show Less
Lasers can cool atoms in part because their photons are “coherent,” meaning they are synchronized and orderly. Two theoretical papers in Physical Review Letters now show explicitly how to use disorderly, incoherent light to cool a small object. The papers employ different principles: in one, the heat is carried away by electrons, while in the other, the heat radiates away as light. But both refrigeration schemes use the energy levels of tailored quantum systems. This is part of a growing body of work showing that quantum machines should perform better than their classical analogs. The new schemes could be good news for researchers trying to cool down precision force meters or bits of a quantum computer.
Cooling with heat is not new. An absorption refrigerator uses heat from a small burner or other source to drive an evaporation-condensation cycle that is similar to the one in a normal refrigerator compressor. Light can be used as the heat source, but the cooling power is not very strong. Much better performance is obtained when laser light is used to cool clouds of atoms and other small objects to near absolute zero. Ideally, researchers would like to cool a small, solid object, such as the tip of an atomic force microscope, to its quantum ground state, the lowest possible temperature. These systems could be used to study quantum gravity or the quantum wave function of a macroscopic object.
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/36