Conduction cooling of large LED array systems

2010 12th IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Petroski, James ^a   Norley, Julian ^a   Schober, John ^a   Reis, Brad ^a   Reynolds, R Andrew ^a  

^a GrafTech International Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Area light; Conduction; Cooling; LED; LED array; Light emitting diode; Street light; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; AIR FLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CONDUCTION; CONDUCTION PATHS; CONDUCTION-COOLING; CONDUCTIVE HEAT; FLEXIBLE GRAPHITE; INITIAL DESIGN; LED ARRAYS; LIGHT CONDUCTION; LIGHT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARKING LOTS; THERMAL CONDUCTION; THERMAL DISSIPATION; THERMAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL PATHS; THERMAL RESISTANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; DIODES; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; GRAPHITE; HEAT SINKS; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PAPER SHEETING; PHYSICAL OPTICS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; ROADS AND STREETS; SHEET METAL; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMOANALYSIS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 77955191964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITHERM.2010.5501350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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6. The concept described in this section is patent pending, GrafTech International Holdings, Inc.
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