Linan Jiang, J. Koo, Shulin Zeng, J. Mikkelsen, Lianpei Zhang, Pengcheng Zhou, J. Santiago, T. Kenny, K. Goodson, J. Maveety, Q. A. Tran
{"title":"Two-phase microchannel heat sinks for an electrokinetic VLSI chip cooling system","authors":"Linan Jiang, J. Koo, Shulin Zeng, J. Mikkelsen, Lianpei Zhang, Pengcheng Zhou, J. Santiago, T. Kenny, K. Goodson, J. Maveety, Q. A. Tran","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915168","url":null,"abstract":"The trend towards higher speed and greater integration of modern ICs requires improved cooling technology. This paper describes the design and characterization of a two-phase microchannel heat sink in an electrokinetic VLSI chip cooling system. The heat sink achieves a thermal resistance of 1 K/W for a 1.2 cm/spl times/1.2 cm silicon thermal test chip under open-loop operation with a water flow-rate of 5 ml/min. Preliminary tests show that a closed-loop EK-pumped system running at 1.2 ml/min and 12 psi removes 17.3 W, with heat rejection at an aluminum fin array. Further optimization of the microchannel dimensions and the working fluid operating pressure are expected to lower the resistance below 0.25 K/W.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121676020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Chien, Ming-Hsi Tseng, Chih-Yao Wang, Chu Chun-Hsun
{"title":"The study of micro-fin heat sinks for electronic cooling applications","authors":"H. Chien, Ming-Hsi Tseng, Chih-Yao Wang, Chu Chun-Hsun","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915181","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of pin fin parameters were studied and tested to calculate an empirical relationship which can predict the optimum thermal performance of the micro pin fin structure. The sample parameters tested are as follows: (1) fin size from 0.2 mm to 1.0 mm; (2) fin height from 2.0 mm to 10.0 mm. The errors from comparison of the empirical relationship with the test data are less than 5%, so we can use this empirical relationship to estimate the optimum performance of pin fin heat sinks. According to the results from empirical relationship, the ratio of optimum fin pitch to fin size (fin pitch/fin size) is about 1.5/spl sim/1.7. Greater fin height gives higher thermal performance, and a smaller fin size structure has the potential for better thermal performance than huge fin size structures.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"333 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120953616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterization of laminar jet impingement cooling in portable computer application","authors":"John R. Guarino, Vincent P. Manno","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915133","url":null,"abstract":"A thermal characterization study of laminar air jet impingement cooling of electronic components within a geometry representative of the CPU compartment of a typical portable computer is reported. A finite control volume technique was used to solve for the velocity and temperature fields. Convection, conduction and radiation effects were included in the simulations. The range of jet Reynolds numbers considered was 63 to 1500; the applied compartment heat load ranged from 5-15 W. Radiation effects were significant over the range of Reynolds numbers and heat loads considered, while the effect of natural convection was only noticeable for configurations when the ratio Gr/Re/sup 2/ exceeded 5. The predicted importance of Re rather than jet size was confirmed with test data. Proof of concept was demonstrated with a numerical model representative of a full laptop computer. Both simulations and laboratory tests showed that low flow rate JI cooling schemes can provide cooling comparable to a high volume flow rate configuration, while using only a fraction of the air flow. Furthermore, under the conservative assumption of steady state, fully powered components, a hybrid cooling scheme utilizing a heat pipe and laminar JI was capable of cooling the processor chip to within 11/spl deg/C of the vendor specified maximum temperature for a system with a total power dissipation of over 21 W.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121840670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal comparison of plate, extrusion heat sink, and skive heat sink","authors":"M.C. Yang","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915156","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the high power dissipation values of power amplifiers, large temperature gradients exist, resulting in localized hot spots around the devices. These hot spots cause high device junction temperatures. Generally speaking, the higher junction temperature increases, the lower reliability will be. Thus, improving the heat spreading is very important. Several methods can be used to improve heat spreading. Skiving is a process of cutting off in thin layers or paring. Skiving is a high throughput manufacturing process that produces high surface area heat sinks at low cost. The entire extruded material is skived and then the heat sinks are cut to the desired length. The high process throughput results in low cost. In quantities of 1000 units, a 100 mm/spl times/70 mm/spl times/25 mm heat sink costs approximately $3.50. A detailed comparison demonstrates the heat absorption capability of using aluminum plate, aluminum plate with skive heat sink, and extrusion heat sink under laminar flow (free convection) and turbulent flow (forced convection) environments. Two CFD thermal analysis software packages (Icepak and Flotherm) are used to compare experimental results.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128152010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal characterization of fan-heat sink systems in miniature axial fan and micro blower airflow","authors":"C. K. Loh, D. Nelson, D. Chou","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915158","url":null,"abstract":"In portable electronics, the thermal management system must be optimized to attain the highest performance in the given space and under the given constraints. The greater the number of fins, the higher the surface area will be, thus aiding forced convection. However, by increasing the number of fins within the same available space, the performance of the fans or blowers will be degraded. The primary goal of the paper is to determine the optimization point for several different fan-heat sink combinations. The secondary goal is to find a theoretical methodology that will simulate the natural phenomena, thus obtaining the ability to optimize the system without experimentation.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132189817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The conceivable accuracy of experimental and numerical thermal analyses of electronic systems","authors":"C. Lasance","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915178","url":null,"abstract":"The past decade has seen significantly increased use of computational codes to calculate the thermal behaviour of electronic systems. The benefits of these virtual prototyping tools are undisputed when performing parametric studies in early design phases. However, when the objective of the calculation is accuracy, as required for reliability and performance assessments, discussion about the level of accuracy to expect in practice becomes far from trivial. A natural question is how accurate numerical simulations are when compared to well-designed experiments in prototypes or final products. Many studies show amazing agreement, the conclusion often being that 'validation of the numerical model' has been proven. These conclusions are subject to serious doubt. This paper discusses 'every' topic associated with a comparison between numerical and experimental results that is based on first principles, not on fitting parameters until the two results match. The final conclusion is inevitable: the situation when all computations at system level can be used for accurate temperature prediction is still a long way off. There are two reasons for this. The first is the lack of sufficiently accurate input parameters and boundary conditions. The second is the fact that several complex physical phenomena that rule the heat transfer behaviour of electronic systems concur with complex geometries. From a practical point of view, detailed analysis of reality cannot and will not be performed for a long time to come. Several suggestions of how to solve these problems are presented.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114367709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microprocessor-based adaptive thermal control for an air-cooled computer CPU module","authors":"C. Lundquist, V. Carey","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915174","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes an exploration of design strategies for a microprocessor-based adaptive thermal control system for heat-dissipating computer CPU modules. The thermal control system contains a cold plate with an air-cooled base mode and a thermo-electric heat pump element that can boost cooling performance when needed. The microprocessor programming includes models of the heat transfer in the cold plate and the thermal performance of the thermo-electric heat pump and the fan coolers. The microprocessor is programmed to compare the thermal control system model predictions to the existing operating conditions. The results of this comparison are used to facilitate control of the cooling system and to provide fault detection during its operation. This paper reports the progress of an ongoing study that will explore different ways that the computational capability of the processor can be used to minimize power consumption while maintaining adequate processor temperature control over broadly varying operating conditions. The investigation also explores the merits of different strategies for incorporating fault detection features into the microprocessor programming to enhance the reliability and robustness of the system.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122994150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Christofferson, D. Vashaee, A. Shakouri, P. Mélèse, Xiaofeng Fan, G. Zeng, C. Labounty, J. Bowers, E. Croke
{"title":"Thermoreflectance imaging of superlattice micro refrigerators","authors":"J. Christofferson, D. Vashaee, A. Shakouri, P. Mélèse, Xiaofeng Fan, G. Zeng, C. Labounty, J. Bowers, E. Croke","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915145","url":null,"abstract":"High resolution thermal images of semiconductor micro refrigerators are presented. Using the thermoreflectance method and a high dynamic range PIN array camera, thermal images with 50 mK temperature resolution and high spatial resolution are presented. This general method can be applied to any integrated circuit, and can be used as a tool for identifying fabrication failures. With further optimization of the experimental set-up, we expect to obtain thermal images with sub-micron spatial resolution.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123493832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of manifold fluid flow networks for air and liquid flow-through modular electronics","authors":"S. T. Johnson","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915184","url":null,"abstract":"Manifold fluid flow networks are an essential element in cooling systems that distribute forced air or forced liquid cooling to high performance modular electronics. Manifolds represent a specialized design problem, however, and few engineers in the field electronics thermal management are familiar with the basic fluid dynamics concepts that govern flow rate and pressure distribution in manifold systems. The subject paper describes a one dimensional discrete branch point model for manifold analysis. Predicted results are compared with liquid flow test data in the laminar and transitional regimes. CFD simulations are used to assess the validity of selected empirical coefficients. Basic design guidelines for the practicing engineer are provided.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129329441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimization of thermal resistance in quasi monolithic integration technology (QMIT) structure","authors":"M. Joodaki, G. Kompa, H. Hillmer, R. Kassing","doi":"10.1109/STHERM.2001.915136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/STHERM.2001.915136","url":null,"abstract":"Quasi-monolithic integration technology (QMIT) is a new alternative to monolithic circuit fabrication for microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits. Static thermal analysis of the standard QMIT structure has already been performed and the effects of different factors and parameters such as epoxy thermal conductivity, distance between active device and Si substrate (W), front side substrate metallization and heat spreader on the back side have been described (Joodaki et al, 2000). In the first structure (or standard structure) of QMIT, the holes in which the active devices are placed have been created by using conventional wet etching of silicon in KOH. It is well known that by using dry etching, the hole dimensions on the front side of the Si-wafer are more uniform, accurate and reproducible. There are two other possible structures, by using full dry etching, and through a combination of wet etching and dry etching. In this paper, a 2D finite element (FE) static heat transfer simulation has been used to find the best structure among these three structures and optimise its geometry and all its physical properties for lower thermal resistance, which makes it possible to use QMIT for high power microwave circuit applications. The results show that a combination of dry etching and wet etching gives a lower thermal resistance than the other two and with backside plating of 275 /spl mu/m gold as a heat spreader, epoxy thermal conductivity of 4 W/m.K and W of 5 /spl mu/m, a thermal resistance of less than 10/spl deg/C/W is possible.","PeriodicalId":307079,"journal":{"name":"Seventeenth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium (Cat. No.01CH37189)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115920838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}