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2 February 2009

 

Nextreme ships high-voltage, low-current thermoelectric cooler module

At last week’s Photonics West 2009 event in San Jose, CA, Nextreme Thermal Solutions of Durham, NC, USA, which manufactures microscale thermal and power management products, announced that it has made the first customer shipment of the latest product in its OptoCooler family of thermoelectric coolers, designed specifically for the optoelectronics and telecoms industries.

The OptoCooler HV14 is the first module in a new HV Series of high-voltage and high-heat-pumping thermoelectric coolers that operate at low currents and are optimized for standard circuitry and power requirements, allowing easy integration into existing control systems with compatible voltage and current specifications.

The HV14 can pump up to 1.5W of heat and operates at a maximum voltage of 2.7V and a peak current of around 1A, with a footprint of just 2.8mm². The module can create a temperature differential of up to 51°C between its hot and cold sides, making it suitable for the cooling and temperature control of optoelectronic devices such as laser diodes for transmission modules and photodiodes for sensing.

At the core of the OptoCooler module is Nextreme’s thin-film Thermal Copper Pillar Bump technology, which acts as a solid-state heat pump to add thermal management functionality locally on the surface of a chip or other electrical component.

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