Experts in thermal management
We’ve challenged the traditional ways of cooling and heating by creating the most powerful, quiet, and efficient solid state technology. Our chip is the element of innovation helping designers and engineers rethink solutions to the world’s toughest thermal challenges.
Our Technology
Phononic’s Active Cooling Solutions™ Platform
Thermoelectrics have been around for over a century, yet nobody has perfected it—until now. We’ve integrated the engineering disciplines of pumping heat, moving heat, and controlling heat to create a whole new thermoelectric system that’s efficient, scalable and sustainable.
Phononic’s solid state thermal technology sets a new standard in thermoelectrics.
Our compact, modular solid state semiconductor can be designed to meet a wide range of heat pumping needs. Highly scalable while maintaining high efficiencies, it can be integrated into a wide range of the most demanding applications
Thermoelectric Devices – How They Work
A thermoelectric device is made up of specialized semiconducting materials connected in a circuit that is sandwiched between two thermally conductive ceramic substrates. When the circuit is energized heat is moved electronically in the direction of the current creating a temperature difference between the two sides of the device.
Phononic – How We Do Things Differently
We’ve taken on complex thermal, mechanical, and electrical challenges—and solved them. Phononic’s design approach allows for thermoelectric technology to be implemented in a rugged, interchangeable, and easily integrated package, minimizing manufacturing loss and reaching new levels of reliability and efficiency.
Super efficient heat transport maximizes the performance of our thermoelectric devices.
The integration of our passive two-phased heat transport systems with Phononic’s Solid State Heat Pumps allows for the creation of systems with low inherent thermal losses, enabling system designs of unparalleled efficiency and capability.
Transport of Thermal Energy – How it Works
Transport of thermal energy moves heat from the thermoelectric cooler (TEC) away from the cooled space inside a refrigerator. This design involves pairing the TEC with a heat sink, which dissipates the heat. An inherent problem in traditional designs is that high thermal resistance heat sinks limit the performance and application of this technology.
Phononic – How We go Beyond
The coupling of highly-efficient thermoelectric devices with low-resistance, efficient heat transport systems allows us to realize the maximum performance for solid state cooling and heating applications.
Unlike traditional thermoelectric systems, Phononic’s multipronged, multilayered approach to thermal controls provides the ultimate system efficiency.
Phononic’s sophisticated control systems tailor the individual operation of multiple Solid State Heat Pumps simultaneously depending on application needs. This architecture ensures the highest, most optimized performance of any solid state system.
Traditional Control of Thermal Systems – How it Works
Compressors cycle on and off, delivering wide swings in temperature and giving risk to spoilage and freezing. Thermoelectrics offer variable control, high precision and energy efficient capabilities. Capturing the technology’s full potential has not been realized until now.
Phononic – How We Go Beyond
With Phononic control systems you can turn up performance on demand without sacrificing efficiency. Because each system is individually controllable, you get amazingly fast pull-down and recovery, with the added benefit of automatic system redundancy.
Your Solution
We’ve combined each engineering discipline—pumping heat, moving heat, and controlling heat—to create a revolutionary thermoelectric system that offers endless benefits and true innovation. This is solid state greatness.
Our engineers will help you converge on a TEC design that maximizes efficiency and exceeds design targets and requirements.
Our consultative approach is unique in the industry. We won’t ask you which TEC (thermoelectric cooler) you want—we’ll ask what it needs to do. With a complete thermal picture of your application, we leverage decades of thermal engineering expertise to develop the right configuration for you—one that maximizes efficiency and exceeds design targets and requirements.
Uncompromised Performance
Up to 60% higher heat pumping density and up to 30% less power consumption drives global data transmission.
Precision at Scale
Our automated manufacturing line with extensive process control and metrology ensures superior quality and reliability in high-volume production.
Unparalleled Design
We deliver unprecedented value and performance by partnering with customers throughout the entire design process—creating application-relevant products/devices/solutions.
What Phononic’s Technology Offers
More Efficient, Up to 30% Less Power
Unlike traditional thermoelectrics, our devices can be packaged into a Phononic Solid State Heat Pump to collectively pump heat while maintaining optimal efficiency, using up to 30% less power. Systems and products based on our Solid State Heat Pump deliver capabilities and efficiencies that rival or surpass current cooling and heating technology.
Near-Silent, Less Than 35 dB
Compressors are noisy with fans that rev up and down all day, producing loud noise levels. Our solid state technology enables compressor-free solutions that operate at silent or near-silent levels depending on system configuration.
Unsurpassed Sustainability
Traditional cooling systems use CFCs, hydrocarbons, and other toxic refrigerants. With just CO2 and water, our system is non-toxic and non-flammable—the most sustainable cooling and heating solution on earth.
Flexible Design
The compact footprint of our Solid State Heat Pump allows for a higher level of design flexibility at the system level. This freedom leads to the creation of product form factors thought to be impossible.
Compact, up to 40% More Storage Capacity
By eliminating the bulky compressor, Phononic’s solid state refrigerators offer up to 40% more storage capacity for applications such as commercial beverage coolers and medical-grade refrigerators.
More Reliable, Lowering Costs by up to 30%
Our thermoelectric system meets rigorous solid state reliability standards and is designed to eliminate the moving parts most vulnerable or prone to fatigue and failure, resulting in longer-lasting products.
The World’s First ENERGY STAR® Certified Solid State Refrigerator
Although thermoelectric devices can often struggle to meet the most challenging ENERGY STAR® standards, we at Phononic have engineered the world’s first ENERGY STAR® certified solid state refrigerator. Our integrated design approach made the impossible possible by pumping, moving, and controlling heat to create a fully optimized, ultra-efficient solid state system. With this know how unlocked, the design can be deployed across a range of end use applications. Contact one of our thermal management experts to learn more.
ENERGY STAR® is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals protect the climate through superior energy efficiency products.
The ENERGY STAR® label can be found on more than 75 different kinds of products that meet strict energy-efficiency specifications set by the EPA. Over the past twenty years, American families and businesses have prevented more than 1.8 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions with help from ENERGY STAR®.