While almost everyone has a heater of some sort in their home, it’s fairly unlikely that the heat provided by a central heating system such as a furnace is distributed in an efficient way. There’s ...

For home HVAC systems, heat pumps seem to be the way of the future. When compared to electric heating they can be three to four times more efficient, and they don’t directly burn fossil fuels. They ...

For the PDF version of this feature, click here. In most modern power semiconductor applications there is a need to carefully manage heat. This is true in fields as diverse as mobile communications, ...