Design, assembly and commissioning of a test apparatus for characterizing thermal interface materials

Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems -Proceedings of the Intersociety Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 128-135

  Culham, J R ^a   Teertstra, P ^a   Savija, I ^a   Yovanovich, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact resistance; In situ thickness measurement; Metallic foils; Phase change materials; Polymeric materials; Test apparatus; Thermal interface materials (TIMs)

Indexed keywords

HEAT RESISTANCE; METAL FOIL; MICROELECTRONICS; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL LOAD; THERMOMECHANICAL TREATMENT;

THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS (TIM);

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0036457910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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