Fabrication and characterization of a low-cost, wafer-scale radial microchannel cooling plate

M. P Y Desmulliez, A. J. Pang, M. Leonard, R. S. Dhariwal, W. Yu, E. Abraham, Gy Bognár, A. Poppe, Gy Horvath, Zs Kohari, M. Rencz, D. Emerson, R. W. Barber, O. Slattery, F. Waldron, N. Cordero

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Abstract

The modeling, simulation, fabrication, and testing of a microchannel cooling plate for microelectronic packaging applications are described in this paper. The cooling component uses forced convection of gas injected inside 128 microchannels of 100-µm width and 70-µm height. The nickel-based plate is fabricated on a glass substrate using a two-layer electroforming process using UV-LIGA technology. The thermal behavior of the microchannel cooling device is investigated by using the measurement of partial thermal resistances through the use of the structure functions method. Heat transfer coefficient values of 300 W/ m2 K have been measured for a nitrogen flow rate of 120 l/h. © 2009 IEEE.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)20-29
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies
Volume32
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Cooling devices
  • Microchannel
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Thermal management
  • UV-LIGA

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