The microwave drill [1] is used in this study for a localized heating of silicon plates, up to the melting point. The paper presents the experimental setup, including the heating device and the temperature measurement techniques. The experimental results show a higher rate of local temperature increase compared to other known methods. This heating method enables localized thermal processes, joi...

Laser therapy is a minimally invasive alternative to surgical resection, but its use is limited due to the lack of specific heating due to the rate of thermal diffusion in the tissue. Nanoparticles, Nanoshells in particular, can act as intense infrared absorbers allowing enhanced thermal deposition of laser energy into tissue enabling improving the ability to damage larger tissue volumes with l...

Fabrication of devices and circuits on silicon wafers creates patterns in optical properties, particularly the thermal emissivity and absorptivity, that lead to temperature nonuniformity during rapid thermal processing (RTP) by infrared heating methods. The work reported in this paper compares the effect of emissivity test patterns on wafers heated by two RTP methods: (1) a steadystate furnace ...

Microwaves have been used to cause thermal destruction of various pathogens by heating the substrate they are found on. It has been found that microwaves also cause non-thermal destruction of bacterial cells thereby reducing the cellular population. The method to detect the non-thermal killing effects of microwaves is one of the highlight of the study undertaken. This has been an originally dev...

Thermal transducers, which can be interpreted as thermally actuated compliant mechanisms, have found a wide range of applications, due to the reason of accessible source, easy controllability and reliability. During the past decade topology optimization techniques have been developed as efficient tools to design distributed type of complaint mechanisms. The generated results have been accepted ...

Local thermal enhancement in target tissue is of great interest in tumor hyperthermia. In this study, we proposed a brand-new thermal enhancement protocol for tumor hyperthermia using heat generated from thermogenesis evoked by capsaicin, which can safely deliver a totally localized heating to target tissue. A healthy male volunteer was recruited, whose partial areas of the dorsum of hand and p...

The invasive Red Palm Weevil is the major pest of palms. Several control methods have been applied, however concern is raised regarding the treatments that can cause significant environmental pollution. In this context the use of microwaves is particularly attractive. Microwave heating applications are increasingly proposed in the management of a wide range of agricultural and wood pests, explo...

The solar gravity heat pipe has been widely used for solar thermal water heating because of its high efficient heat transfer and thermal diode characteristics. Operated on fluctuant and low intensity solar radiation conditions, a solar gravity heat pipe may frequently start up. This severely affects its solar collection performance. To enhance the thermal performance of the solar gravity heat p...

The creation of low resistivity, ultrashallow source/drain regions in MOS device structures requires rapid thermal processing (RTP) techniques that restrict diffusion and activate a significant percentage of the implanted dopant species. While current heating techniques depend upon illumination based heating, a new technology, electromagnetic induction heating (EMIH), achieves a rapid heating o...

In this paper an extensive verification of the extraction method (published earlier) that consistently accounts for self-heating and Early effect to accurately extract both base and thermal resistance of bipolar junction transistors is presented. The method verification is demonstrated on advanced RF SiGe HBTs were the extracted results for the thermal resistance are compared with those from an...