Liquid cooling of bright LEDs for automotive applications

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 1239-1244

  Lai, Yan ^a   Cordero, Nicolás ^a   Barthel, Frank ^b   Tebbe, Frank ^b   Kuhn, Jörg ^b   Apfelbeck, Robert ^b   Würtenberger, Dagmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Odelo GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automotive; Bright LEDs; Lighting; Liquid cooling; Thermal management; White LEDs

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT MATERIALS; APPLICATIONS; AUTOMOBILE COOLING SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE MATERIALS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; LIGHTING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

AUTOMOTIVE; BRIGHT LEDS; LIQUID COOLING; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; WHITE LEDS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 58549112371     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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