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others do not And those others for sure include the designers of products that contain electronics. There is a growing need to educate designers who are involved with the undesired side-effects of heat-dissipating components. Additionally, a growing number of products ask for temperature control, such as DNA amplification cartridges, lasers, and many domestic appliances such as beer coolers and icemakers. In order to meet this need in a professional way, it is not sufficient to just ask for a thermal expert to present a course because the thermal problems get out of hand. Instead, a number of questions must first be answered: is education taken seriously and hence is money available, who must be educated, what must the course participant actually know after the course, does a plan exist for transfer of knowledge when key people are leaving, what is the policy regarding the level of thermal expertise, does the roadmap possibly indicates changes on which we must now try to anticipate? This TN describes shortly the history of heat transfer education within Philips, the reasons why thermal training is often treated as an afterthought, the potential consequences of such an attitude for future business, the target groups, and a discussion about a recently developed flexible and modular course

Ultralow Power Microfuses for Write-Once Read-Many Organic Memory Elements

Ultralow power microfuses for write-once read-many organic memory elements that rely on electrolysis of water rather than conventional Joule heating are presented. Gasses formed upon electrolysis cannot escape, the pressure rises, the top electrode delaminates and the electrical contact is lost. The voltage-driven fuses are ideally suited for low-end applications such as in electronic bar codes