On-chip two-phase cooling with refrigerant 85 μ-wide multi-microchannel evaporator under hot-spot conditions

IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-320

  Costa Patry, Etienne ^a   Nebuloni, Stefano ^a   Olivier, Jonathan ^a   Thome, John Richard ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hot spots; micro cooling; nonuniform heat flux; refrigerants; thermal management; two phase flow cooling

Indexed keywords

FLOW INSTABILITIES; HEAT FLUX MEASUREMENT; HOT SPOT; HOTSPOTS; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; LOW PRESSURES; MICRO-COOLING; NONUNIFORM; ON CHIPS; SATURATION TEMPERATURE; TEST FLUIDS; TEST SECTIONS; UNIFORM HEAT FLUX;

ELECTRONIC COOLING; EVAPORATORS; MICROCHANNELS; REFRIGERANTS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84859084239     PISSN: 21563950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCPMT.2011.2173572     Document Type: Article

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