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...]
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...]
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...]
Thermo-Reflectance Thermography For Submicron Temperature Measurements
The primary approach to maintaining the aggressive progress in the microelectronics industry has been to increase the density of elementary transistors and to reduce the size of their active areas. As a result, the removal of heat generated by various internal system components has become a major design challenge, further complicated by the lack of knowledge of the temperature … [Read more...]
Advanced Cooling Using Meso-Scale Evaporative Cold Plates
Introduction Thermal management of servers and communications equipment has become significantly more challenging over the past several years. As is well known, processor powers have increased to 150 W or more and are projected to continue to rise, despite the move to multi-core designs (and the huge investment in software that this entails) [1]. Rack-level functional density … [Read more...]
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