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With progress in microelectronics the component density on a device increases drastically. As a consequence the power density reaches levels that challenge device reliability. New heat dissipation strategies are needed to efficiently drain heat. Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) are usually used to transfer heat across interfaces, for example between a device and its packaging. Vertically Aligned...
Thermal elastomer composites (TECs) that are electrically insulating have potential usage in soft transducers targeting thermal sensors and actuators, or thermoelectric generators. In this work, such a TEC is prepared by dispersing droplets of a gallium based liquid alloy (Galinstan) into a polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) base matrix. The results indicate that the TEC is highly elastic and shows an up...
In power microelectronics, the trends towards miniaturization and higher performances result in higher power densities and more heat to be dissipated. In most electronic assembly, thermal interface materials (TIM) help provide a path for heat dissipation but still represent a bottleneck in the total thermal resistance of the system. VA-CNTs mats are typically grown on HR silicon substrate with Al2...
The effects of dispersion states of carbon nanotubes on thermal conductivity and Micro-hardness of Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) reinforced copper nanocomposites were investigated. The nanocomposites were fabricated in a novel method. It involves the synthesis of MWCNT-implanted copper composite spheres and the preparation of the MWCNT/copper bulk materials using vacuum hot pressing and hot...
With the rapid developments of electronic packaging, there is an increasing demand on high performance isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs). However, the traditional ICAs are brittle, sensitive for crack formation and delamination, which is one of the major drawbacks that limits their use in a wide range of applications. Therefore great efforts have been made to make conductive adhesives more flexible...
With the continuing increase in power dissipation requirements of electronic devices, there is a need to develop new thermal interface materials (TIM) with much higher thermal conductivity (K) than that available from conventional TIMs. Recently, liquid phase sintering (LPS) has been proposed as a new paradigm for designing next generation composite-solder TIMs with a radically different microstructure...
Thermal interface materials (TIMs), including thermal conductive adhesives (TCAs), grease, phase change materials (PCMs) and thermal pads, are widely used in thermal management for electronics system. In this work, a bimodal thermal conductive adhesive (b-TCA) composed of epoxy matrix and silver fillers were developed. The silver fillers consist of silver flakes and silver particles. The specimens...
An urgent need for improved thermal management of microelectronic systems has emerged as a direct consequence of increasing integration densities, both at chip and packaging level. Current thermal interface materials have been identified as a major bottleneck, hindering reduction of junction to ambient thermal resistance to future required levels (< 0.2 KW-1). In this paper we introduce and characterize...
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the recent progress of research work performed to develop new thermal interface materials. The review starts by classifying existing thermal interface materials and analyzing their advantages and disadvantages. The state of the art research is then reviewed with an emphasis on those materials based on various carbon allotropes, such as graphite, carbon...
Heat resistant conductive adhesives composed of a multi-functional epoxy matrix containing Ag flakes were developed in this work. The adhesives are potentially stable up to 200-250degC because the primary relaxation mechanism of the matrix resin occurs at ~250degC. However, the adhesives appeared to exhibit another relaxation mechanism at an intermediate temperature range (100-180degC) when a mono-epoxide...
Thermal interface materials have been widely adopted in the thermal management for electronics system. Most of the thermal interface materials are made of polymers with thermally conductive particles distributed inside to enhance the thermal conductivity. Thus it is essential to figure out the effective thermal conductivity of this composite material. In the present paper, a parameterized cubic cell...
Heat dissipation of electronic packages has become one of the limiting factors to miniaturization. The removal of the heat generated is a critical issue in electronic packaging. With the development of thermal management, thermal interface material (TIM) plays a more and more important role in electronics packaging. A new nano-TIM with nanofibers prepared by using electrospinning has been suggested...
As power density in electronic system is approaching a level that conventional cooling methods canpsilat handle, reliability of microsystems is of large concern. In this paper, novel schemes for heat dissipation on electrical components have been reviewed with a strong focus on using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as cooling fins as a basic approach. With an extraordinary high thermal conductivity, CNT is...
Continued miniaturization in combination with increased performance of microelectronics has generated an urgent need for improved thermal management techniques in order to maintain reliability of systems and devices. Development of advanced thermal interface materials has been identified as crucial, absorbing a portion of the advancements necessary within packaging technology. In this paper we introduce...
The two-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations have been done for a series of material parameters of coolants in this paper. The influences of thermal conductivity, density, specific heat and viscosity on cooling have been obtained in the case studies. The pressure drop between the inlet and outlet of the cooling device is dependent on coolant's density and viscosity. Consequently,...
The 2D CFD simulations have been carried out for a series of CNT micro-fin cooling architectures based on two dimensional fin array models in this paper. The influence of micro-fin structures, fluid speeds, heating powers and effective thermal conductivity on cooling effects have been obtained in the case studies, and the 2D fin array simulation results have been compared with our previous 1D fin...
Thermal management in electronics packaging is becoming more rigorous with the increase of IC power. A common method is to transfer heat from the heat generating devices using a heat dissipation member, for example heat sink. Thermal interface material (TIM) is applied between the heat source component and the thermally conductive member to offer a fast heat dissipation path. Nano thermal interface...
Summary form only given. One important function of microsystem packaging is to remove the heat generated by the integrated circuits (ICs). The thermal management of microsystems has now become more crucial as the power density of ICs increases dramatically. To remove the big amount of heat is a big challenge for the packaging technology. An attractive solution is to utilize new developed nanotechnologies...
Heat dissipation of semiconductor packages has become one of the limiting factors in miniaturization. A new Nano Thermal Interface Material (Nano-TIM) with potential high thermal conductivity and excellent mechanical properties manufactured by electrospinning process has been published earlier. In the present work, SiC nano-particles were added into the electrospinning solution to improve the thermal...
This paper reports the results of an investigation to create a thermal interface material (TIM) with adhesive functions. Previous tests with electro-spun nano fibrous polymer materials indicate high thermal conductivity of the films, and even higher thermal conductivity and lower resistivity had subsequently been obtained by adding thermally conductive nano particles. The thickness of the TIMs produced...
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