Physicists develop a cooling system for the processors of the future

Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of the overheating of active plasmonic components for high-speed data transfer in the optoelectronic microprocessors of the future. These will be able to function tens of thousands of times faster than the microprocessors currently in use today. In the paper, published in ACS Photonics, the researchers have demonstrated how to efficiently cool optoelectronic chips using industry-standard heatsinks despite the high heat generation in acti...