There’s been a bit of talk on the internet about microchannels and their use in thermal management for electronics. As a service to our readers of ATS’ Thermal Blog we thought we’d put together a roundup of some of the microchannel coverage at Advanced Thermal Solutions and a few other sources just to help you have a single location to either renew your knowledge or bring you up to speed. This isn’t an exhaustive guide but more like a series of articles for overview:
- Microchannel Concepts and Recent Advances: An ATS Thermal Lab white paper from 2007 with good general information on the topic of microchannels
- Understanding how fluid boils in tiny microchannels gives engineers another tool to cool high-power electronics: A report on work being done at Purdue University on commercializing microchannels for thermal management
- The Thermal Peformance of Microchannel and Macrochannel Cold Plates: Covers the basics of the technology and thermal performance of microchannel and macrochannel cold plates.
- Direct Cooling of Power Modules by Using Micro-Channel Structures: an ATS Labs “how to” article: Microchannels can have a variety of applications, cooling power modules is one of them
- How to implement liquid cooling at the chip level: liquid cooled microchannel heat sinks to the rescue!: A technical article covering the “how to” on using microchannels in heat sinks.
- How to use silicon to create a cost effective and thermally effecient microchannel heat sink: How to create a cost effective and thermally efficient heat sink using microchannels