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Leisurely Dissipation

Got to go on a field trip to Xinchu for an ITRI seminar on LED heat dissipation techniques. The weather was great, and they provided pretty decent food and snacks, but the show was a little disappointing for NTD2000. The industry guys talked nice but didn't give out much content. The research guys had some cool ideas, if I were still a physics grad. student, but they rambled through their presentations (seems like some of them would've been more comfortable presenting in English) and I'm not sure how useful the ideas are for industry. For gods sake, the LED die won't survive more than a 500V ESD jolt and you want me to put 8000V electrodes right there? Sure it's for a good cause (generate a corona wind to enhance airflow through a heatsink), but no amount of cooling would do any good if the darn thing's dead. Loved to see the electrohydrodynamics Navier-Stokes equation up on the big-screen though. Brought back some scary juju.