Cooling strategies for high performance miniature wireless robots designed to operate at the nanoscale

Abstract

The concept of high throughput nanorobotics platforms based on a fleet of miniature wireless robots capable of fast operations at the nanoscale offers many advantages compared to other approaches. But as the size of these instrumented robots decreases with a potential increase in performance, the surface available on each miniature robot to dissipate the heat becomes insufficient. Since known traditional methods of heat dissipation cannot be applied, other cooling methods better appropriate within the constraints of such nanorobotics platforms must be considered. Two novel cooling strategies for high performance miniature robots designed for nanoscale operations are proposed. One method exploits the heat capacity of water in a special thin multi-layer jacket installed on each robot. Another method places all robots in a Helium atmosphere cooled with liquid Nitrogen.