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Title: A Thermoelectric Cat Warmer from Microprocessor Waste Heat


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A Thermoelectric Cat Warmer from Microprocessor
Waste Heat
  • Simha Sethumadhavan
  • Doug Burger
  • Department of Computer Sciences
  • The University of Texas at Austin

2
Motivation
  • Hot laptops
  • Cold cats
  • Frozen whiskers
  • Reduced pest control

3
Solution
Purr
On chip Thermoelectric Generator
Heat
Current
This talk
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Thermoelectricity
  • Thermoelectricity Electricity produced from heat
  • First observed by Seebeck in 1822

Replica of the apparatus
Wire
V S.?T
Thomas Seebeck
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Traditional Uses
Seiko Thermic watches 5C body heat,
60?W Doped Poly Si, .3 efficiency
Cassini space probe 32.8Kg radioactive plutonium
fuel, InGaAs thermocouple, 628 Watts, 3-4
efficiency
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Cat Mutator
Docile Cat
Radioactive Plutonium Pellet
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The Physics
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  • When a wire is heated electrons and phonons
    diffuse
  • Electrons
  • Higher electron diffusion ? more current (good)
  • Phonons
  • Collide with other phonons and increase heat flow
    (bad) or
  • Either transfer their momentum to electrons
    (good) or
  • Lose their momentum due to boundary collisions
    (good)

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Traditional Materials
  • Ideally for large thermoelectric current
  • Low phonon flow
  • Const temperature difference ? Low thermal
    conductivity
  • Many high energy electrons
  • Small resistance ? High electrical conductivity
  • Many phonon electron collisions
  • Large voltage per unit temperature difference ?
    High Seebeck constant

Constant Metals Insulators Semiconductors
Seebeck Small High Acceptable
Electrical High Very Low Variable
Thermal High X Medium?High
Nanotech allows constants be controlled
independently precisely
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New Thin-film Wires
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Thin film (few nanometers)
  • Thin film and metal boundary do not align
  • More phonon boundary collisions
  • More electron phonon collisions
  • Figure of Merit (M seebeck2. elec/therm)
  • Traditional Poly Si is 0.4
  • Thin-film Bismuth Telluride is 2.38
  • Venkatasubramanium et al. Nature 2001

10
Generator Efficiency
Maximum theoretical efficiency of any generator
  • Chip temperatures
  • Cold end (Tc)
  • 27C
  • Hot end (TH)
  • 77 C, 52 C
  • M for Bismuth Telluride
  • 6x better

Temperature Difference Max. efficiency of a Bismuth Telluride Generator
50 7.1
25 3.7
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Horizontal Generator
Horizontal Generator (nanowire bundles)
Hot end
Cold end
Wiring Layers
Die
  • Run a bundle of Bismuth Telluride nanowires from
    processor hot spot to cold spot
  • Temperature difference 50 degrees

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Vertical Generator
Wiring Layers
Hot surface
Die
Cold surface
Vertical Generator
  • Run a bundle of Bismuth Telluride nanowires from
    logic level to the heat spreader
  • Temperature difference 20 degrees

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Multiple Generators
Vertical Generator
Purr
Cold surface
Die
Hot surface
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Rough Estimates
Parameters Horizontal Vertical
Length 1mm .25mm
Area 300nm x 300nm 1cm x 1cm
Resistance 13M? .3 ??
Temp Diff 50 25 (50)
Real Power .13?W .15W (.6W)
Theoretical 7.1W 3.7W
  • For Bismuth Telluride
  • Seebeck coefficienct 243?V/K
  • Resistivity 1.2 x 10-5 ohm/meter

15
Conclusions
  • Limitations
  • Manufacturing
  • Engineering Hinders cooling, peripheral
    circuitry overheads
  • Only cats are supported
  • Final thoughts
  • Thermoelectric heat extraction looks interesting
  • Newer materials can improve power output further
  • How far can this be pushed?
  • When does this become interesting to architects?


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