Heat spreaders let you move heat from within enclosures, where space may be at a premium, to areas with a larger cross-sectional area, surface area and/or volume and a lower heat flux. Spread out, the heat can be more easily dissipated, helping to protect key electronic components like microprocessors.
Heat spreaders can dissipate heat to air (forced or natural convection), liquid (pumped systems) or to space via radiated heat. The result? Greater design flexibility for cooling today’s increasingly powerful and heat-generating electronics.