@inproceedings{31206, keywords = {cooling, Heat exchangers, Microchannels}, author = {Ravi S Prasher and Je-Young Chang}, title = {Cooling of Electronic Chips Using Microchannel and Micro-Pin Fin Heat Exchangers}, abstract = {

The research community is experiencing a revolution in microscale and nanoscale heat transfer, with a focus on developing fundamental experiments and theoretical techniques. More recently, these advancements have begun to influence the design of electronic systems. A futuristic electronic cooling solution might include high efficiency thermoelectric devices made from nanomaterials for the cooling of hotspots on a chip, nano/micro particle laden thermal interface materials and micro-pin fin/microchannel based heat exchanger. Liquid cooling using integrated microscale heat exchangers is a promising future technology to address issues associated with integrated circuit thermal management. In this paper recent advances made by us on technology development of microchannel/micro-pin-fin heat exchangers is presented. Particular attention is given to the impact of hotspots on the performance of microchannel cooling.

}, year = {2008}, journal = {ASME 2008 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels}, pages = {1881–1887}, month = {01/2008}, publisher = {American Society of Mechanical Engineers}, doi = {10.1115/ICNMM2008-62384}, language = {eng}, }