Cool Chips plc Receives Nanotech Manufacturing Patent.Business Editors GIBRALTAR--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2002 Cool Chips plc (COLCF) announces that a patent, titled "Method for Making a Diode Device" No. 6,417,060, was issued by the US Patent Office on July 9th, 2002. The patent refers to a method for manufacturing nanotech energy conversion devices such as Cool Chips(TM), a proprietary cooling technology that promises efficiency levels much higher than existing solid-state cooling systems cooling systems for housed animals include spraying of roofs with water, evaporative pads with fans, foggers and misters; for pastured animals shelter from the sun by trees or artificial shade devices and cooling ponds are used. . The method involves creating a tiny gap, measured in nanometers, between two electrodes Electrodes Tiny wires in adhesive pads that are applied to the body for ECG measurement. Mentioned in: Electrocardiography . An electrode electrode, terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit. In most familiar circuits current is carried by metallic conductors, but in some circuits the current passes for some distance through a is coated with a sublimative material such as Cadmium cadmium (kăd`mēəm) [from cadmia, Lat. for calamine, with which cadmium is found associated], metallic chemical element; symbol Cd; at. no. 48; at. wt. 112.41; m.p. 321°C;; b.p. 765°C;; sp. gr. 8. and then depositing a second electrode on top. Because the Cadmium layer is very thin, any surface variation on the lower electrode will be mirrored on the upper, deposited electrode, so a very small but constant gap is maintained between the two. When the upper surface has been deposited, the device is heated in a vacuum chamber from which the sublimative layer is removed as a vapor. Cool Chips(TM) are wafer-thin discs designed to produce cooling or refrigeration refrigeration, process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective. more efficiently than any competing technology, using quantum mechanical electron tunneling tunneling, quantum-mechanical effect by which a particle can penetrate a barrier into a region of space that would be forbidden by ordinary classical mechanics. as the primary cooling mechanism. The Cool Chip(TM) is one of the first transformative technologies to emerge from the nanotechnology revolution. Because of the inherent advantages in cooling across a gap using electron tunneling, Cool Chips(TM) are projected to attain efficiencies much higher than those available in current cooling systems, and they are much less than 10% of the size and weight of compressors. Cool Chips(TM) are modular, and can be packaged in arrays to cool virtually any size heat load. "Cool Chips(TM) have applications wherever heat management is an issue" said Cool Chips plc President Isaiah Cox. "This is a new, elegant method for manufacturing matched pairs of electrodes and maintaining a consistent gap at the nanometer level. We are now building increasingly compact devices and continually improving our manufacturing techniques as we drive towards commercial production prototypes." The technology is protected by an extensive patent portfolio covering general theory and specific techniques for thermo-tunneling and thermal energy thermal energy Internal energy of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium (see thermodynamics) by virtue of its temperature. A hot body has more thermal energy than a similar cold body, but a large tub of cold water may have more thermal energy than a cup of boiling conversion. More details are available on the Cool Chips plc web site at www.coolchips.gi including the full text of this and other patents. Cool Chips plc (COLCF) is a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Borealis Exploration Limited Borealis Exploration Ltd. is a Gibraltar-based research and development company that owns subsidiaries dealing with materials and power transfer. The company considers itself a virtual company, and is publicly traded. (BOREF) and has 7,365,460 shares outstanding as of 31 March 2002 Audited Accounts. Borealis Exploration Limited has 4,982,605 shares outstanding as of 31 March 2002 Audited Accounts. Both companies are based in Gibraltar. Borealis' business is reinventing the core technologies used by basic industries, including electric motors, steelmaking, electrical power generation, and cooling and thermal management. Forward Looking Statement at http://www.coolchips.gi/fwdlook.shtml |
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