为了更可持续的冷却,与微流体共同设计电子产品
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.
Nature
|September 10, 2020
概括
这项研究引入了一种新的,集成的微流体和电子冷却系统. 这种先进的热管理显著提高了热去除效率,同时减少了能源和水的消耗.
科学领域:
- 材料科学
- 机械工程
- 电气工程
背景情况:
- 由于数据的增长和小型化,电子功率密度正在增加.
- 目前的冷却方法耗费大量能源和水,给环境带来挑战.
- 现有的嵌入式冷却解决方案无法充分利用节能潜力.
研究的目的:
- 开发一种更可持续,更高效的电子冷却技术.
- 探索在单一基板上共同设计微流体和电子产品的好处.
- 展示一个单一的集成式微通道冷却结构.
主要方法:
- 在半导体基板上共同设计微流体通道和电子元件.
- 开发一个单体集成的微通道冷却结构.
- 试验验证取热能力和抽热功率要求.
主要成果:
- 达到超过1.7kW/cm2的热流,只有0.57W/cm2的功率.
- 在单相水冷时观察到性能系数超过10,000,热量流>1kW/cm2.
- 与直线微通道相比,性能提高了50倍,平均Nusselt数高达16.
结论:
- 集成的冷却技术提供了卓越的热管理效率.
- 这种方法大大减少了电子设备冷却的能源和水耗.
- 可以进一步缩小电子产品,从而扩展摩尔定律并创建紧的功率转换器.
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