%0 Journal Article
%A Ravi S Prasher
%A P Koning
%A J Shipley
%A others others
%B Journal of
%D 2003
%G eng
%I … .asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
%R 10.1115/1.1602703
%T Dependence of thermal conductivity and mechanical rigidity of particle-laden polymeric thermal interface material on particle volume fraction
%8 07/2003
%X <p>This paper reports the measurement of the thermal conductivity of particle-laden polymeric thermal interface materials for three different particle volume fractions. The experimental data are further compared with the percolation model and effective medium theory. We then introduce a method of obtaining the contact resistance between the particles and the polymeric matrix by a combination of percolation modeling and experimental data. We also discuss the dependence of the mechanical response of these particle-laden polymers for different filler or particle loading. A novel mechanical length scale is defined to understand the mechanical response of these materials, and is correlated to the viscosity of these materials.</p>