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Co-designing electronics with microfluidics for more sustainable cooling.

Remco van Erp¹, Reza Soleimanzadeh¹, Luca Nela¹

¹Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), Institute of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering

Background:

Electronics power density is increasing due to data growth and miniaturization.
Current cooling methods are energy and water-intensive, posing environmental challenges.
Existing embedded cooling solutions do not fully leverage energy-saving potential.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a more sustainable and efficient electronic cooling technology.
To explore the benefits of co-designing microfluidics and electronics on a single substrate.
To demonstrate a monolithic integrated manifold microchannel cooling structure.

Main Methods:

Co-designing microfluidic channels and electronic components on a semiconductor substrate.
Developing a monolithically integrated manifold microchannel cooling structure.
Experimental validation of heat extraction capabilities and pumping power requirements.

Main Results:

Achieved heat fluxes exceeding 1.7 kW/cm² with only 0.57 W/cm² pumping power.
Observed a coefficient of performance over 10,000 for single-phase water-cooling at >1 kW/cm² heat flux.
Demonstrated a 50-fold increase in performance compared to straight microchannels, with a high average Nusselt number of 16.

Conclusions:

The integrated cooling technology offers superior thermal management efficiency.
This approach significantly reduces energy and water consumption for electronics cooling.
Enables further electronics miniaturization, potentially extending Moore's Law and creating compact power converters.