%0 Conference Paper
%K Cooling
%K Heat exchangers
%K Microchannels
%A Ravi S Prasher
%A Je-Young Chang
%B ASME 2008 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels
%D 2008
%G eng
%I American Society of Mechanical Engineers
%P 1881–1887
%R 10.1115/ICNMM2008-62384
%T Cooling of Electronic Chips Using Microchannel and Micro-Pin Fin Heat Exchangers
%8 01/2008
%X <p><span>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.</span></p>