Cool move to Britain
Wednesday, 29 September, 2004
iCurie Lab Holdings will establish its global operations in Britain to enable a former NASA scientist and his team to exploit environment-friendly nano-scale cooling technology systems.
The company is being backed by both the US emerging-technology finance organisation Hansen Gray & Company Inc and the British Trade & Investment organisation.
After work on two space shuttle missions with NASA, former Samsung scientists Dr Jeong Hyun Lee created what is described as 'revolutionary breakthrough cooling technology'.
It was initially produced to solve the problem of semiconductor cooling.
A spokesman says the system does not require fans, pumps, dangerous gases or electricity to be effective. The system has been initially applied to semiconductor cooling in overcoming one of the biggest barriers in developing faster computer speeds - heat.
Dr Lee and his team believe the technology could eventually reduce the size and running cost of air conditioning by around 70%.
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