See index of topics below
Heating of electronics should be taken very seriously. Bad designs have started their fair share of fires. Remember there's people who'll have to clean up your mistakes. Do your best not to ruin their day!
This is a page ties together a lot of information on temperature measurements, heating analysis, etc.
Heat and temperature are two enemies of electronics, as evidenced by many of the pictures in the Microwave Mortuary. But heat is a love/hate relationship in microwaves, as you know microwaves are used for heating applications. There are microwave tubes that require heat to operate, and there are oscillators that have to be oven controlled to stabilize. Heat and temperature are important parts of microwave engineering.
Here's a list of our heat topics:
Temperature variable attenuators (new for May 2020)
Amplifier temperature compensation example (new for March 2022)
Capacitor temperature effects (new for January 2019)
Microwave auditory effect
Fourier's Law
Modeling temperature effects on S-parameters
Temperature coefficient of resistance
Temperature sensors
Thermocouples
Thermistors
RTDs
Current source transducers
Infrared transducers
Change-of-state devices
Thermodynamics, laws of
Thermal analysis
Steady-state heat analysis
Transient analysis
Reliability
Heating with microwaves
Microwave toilet
Thermo-electric coolers
Microwave tubes
Magnetrons
TWTs
Thermal expansion
Low-expansion alloys
Thermal conductivity
Cryogenics
High-temperature superconductors