Previous Technical Data columns have covered thermal properties for many of the materials that are common to electronics packaging. The Technical Data for this issue is broader in scope and addresses common building materials, some of which are used in heat transfer laboratory environments, in addition to their usual construction applications. Knowledge of thermal conductivity … [Read more...]
Thermal Modeling Approaches Of GaAs Semiconductors
Introduction Predicting gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor temperature is imperative since it affects the performance and reliability of the chip and the design as a whole. In many circumstances, the thermal engineer will be asked to provide expeditious and accurate answers to trade studies regarding various FET layouts and geometry, metallization schemes, and conduction … [Read more...]
Modeling Air-Cooled Heat Sinks As Heat Exchangers
Introduction The thermal resistance of a heat sink is a convenient way of describing its performance but, unlike its electrical counterpart, the thermal resistance of a heat sink is not a constant: it changes significantly with air flow. How we "understand" heat sinks is revealed by the models we use to describe their thermal resistance. Most thermal engineers use a single-term … [Read more...]
Estimating Thermal Resistance For Fin-To-Fin Thermal Couplers
Introduction Most readers of ElectronicsCooling magazine are familiar with the use of fins to increase convective heat transfer area to achieve a lower thermal resistance from a component to the cooling fluid. This Calculation Corner article will address the use of interdigitated fins to provide a mechanically tolerant thermal path between two opposing surfaces (e.g., the back … [Read more...]
en Route to a Greener Thermal Technology
It's no surprise. Power levels in the data center keep rising. In fact, the cost of powering the computers in the data center is beginning to exceed the cost of the computers themselves. The computer architects have responded by designing systems that use multi-core processors. These processors can use less energy to perform the same workload as their single-core brethren by … [Read more...]
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