Adaptive cooling of integrated circuits using digital microfluidics

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 432-443

  Paik, Philip Y ^b   Pamula, Vamsee K ^b   Chakrabarty, Krishnendu ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b Advanced Liquid Logic Inc   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cooling; Chip cooling; Digital micro fluidics; Electrowetting; Hot spot cooling; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

COOLING; MICROFLUIDICS; PRODUCT DESIGN; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE COOLING; DIGITAL MICRO FLUIDICS; ELECTROWETTING;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 41549154335     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2007.915434     Document Type: Article

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