High heat flux two-phase cooling in silicon multimicrochannels

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 691-701

  Agostini, Bruno ^a   Thome, John Richard ^b   Fabbri, Matteo ^a   Michel, Bruno ^c  

^a ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chip cooling; Flow boiling; High heat flux; Micro channel; Refrigerant; Two phase cooling

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEAT SINKS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; SILICON; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHIP COOLING; FLOW BOILING; HIGH HEAT FLUX; MICRO CHANNEL; REFRIGERANT; TWO-PHASE COOLING;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 54849144100     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2008.921997     Document Type: Article

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