ABOUT NOVEL CONCEPTS, INC. Novel Concepts, Inc. is a thermal research and development company that creates unique thermal management solutions for the electronics and semiconductor industry. Founded in 1995, Novel Concepts has developed, patented, and sold, cooling solutions for the world's largest electronics and semiconductor companies and their contract manufacturers. Since our inception over 500 million thermal management devices have been manufactured using our patented technologies. "With semiconductor power densities surpassing that of a nuclear reactor, power dissipation becomes a primary design obstacle." (Daniel L. Thomas, Chief Technology Officer) Examples of the wide variety of thermal management technologies we have developed include: worlds thinnest integrated fan heat sink (patented) worlds thinnest active heat spreader (patented) worlds most thermally conductive plastic (patented) low cost photovoltaic (solar) coolers for concentrated arrays lightweight cold plates and heat sinks, for military robotics Peltier (solid state thermoelectric) coolers low stress heat sinks for large Peltier arrays high density LED array coolers (LED heat sinks) microfluidic cooling plates (microchannel heat sinks) notebook, desktop, and handheld microprocessor coolers wearable thermal signaling devices lightweight compact heat exchangers for avionics programmable Peltier laser chillers for wafer fabrication computer enclosures for the Alaska pipeline vortex coolers for high contamination environments solid state temperature sensors for data acquisition microprocessor thermal dummy's for cooling research thin film and thick film heaters, on alumina, beryllia, and AlN all-polyimide low thermal time constant heaters transparent sapphire heaters