Introduction Significant increases in temperature are believed to contribute to losses in reliability and performance, and can present serious complications to thermal management. The net thermal effect depends on a combination of factors related to the feature size, power densities, and material properties. In semiconductor devices, higher heat flux densities can result from … [Read more...]
Small Fans for Cooling Small Electronic Devices
Small Fans for Cooling Small Electronic Devices Masaharu Miyahara, Sunonwealth Electronic Machine Industry Co., Ltd. The growing portable device market boosts the development of small electric devices, such as Ultra Mobile PC, Pico projector, Smart Phone, etc. One laptop cooling solution is the fan-less cooling technology that transports the CPU heat by using a heat pipe. … [Read more...]
Using a Matrix Inverse Method to Solve a Thermal Resistance Network
Today virtually all serious thermal analysis and design calculations for electronic packages are performed using various commercial flow and thermal conduction codes. Nonetheless, there are still many instances, especially in the early phases of a project, when the thermal engineer finds it advantageous to perform so called "back of the envelope" calculations without resorting … [Read more...]
A Simple Method to Estimate Boiling Heat Sink Performance
Introduction As most readers of ElectronicsCooling magazine are no doubt aware, fins may be added to a heat transfer surface to increase the effective heat transfer area and thereby reduce the base surface temperature for a given heat load and heat transfer coefficient. The formula to estimate the heat dissipation capability, qf, of a straight fin is given by, and Af is … [Read more...]
Advanced Aerodynamics for Electronics Cooling Fans
Introduction The performance of electronics cooling fans has been steadily increasing as flow requirements chase higher thermal loading. These advances have been primarily achieved through mechanical and architecture changes. However, the aerodynamic sophistication of these fans has progressed to a lesser degree, and is far removed from turbomachines used in higher power … [Read more...]
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