{"id":274,"date":"2010-03-17T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:19:30","slug":"thermal-interface-material-resource-round-up-for-your-heat-sinks-and-thermal-engineering-design-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/17\/thermal-interface-material-resource-round-up-for-your-heat-sinks-and-thermal-engineering-design-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal Interface Material Resource Round-Up for your Heat Sinks and Thermal Engineering Design needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great deal of information out there on thermal interface material from the various manufacturers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Surprisingly, much of it is very good and mostly neutral, like our presentation in our post from earlier today, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/17\/when-to-use-a-thermal-interface-material-with-your-heat-sinks-and-why\/\">When to Use Thermal Interface Material with your Heat Sinks and why<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With some thermal interface material you don&#8217;t even need a heat sink providing you can bridge the gap between some low power components and the case thereby using the case itself as a heat sink.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, this works only in limited cases of fairly low power devices.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here is ATS&#8217;s Thermal Interface Material Resource Round-Up for your Heat Sinks and Thermal Engineering Design needs.\u00c2\u00a0 Our list is not exhaustive but should get you going in the right direction if you are just starting out or if you are doing a market study on what is available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fujipoly.com\/\">Fujipoly<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Thermal putty and gap fillers.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t discount this stuff!\u00c2\u00a0 Worth a look for bridging the IC to the case without a heat sink. Also useful where you need to fill in spaces with odd shapes.\u00c2\u00a0 In some applications can be near to phase change material performance<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomerics.com\/products\/thermal.htm\">Chomerics<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 One of our favs.\u00c2\u00a0 Phase Change Material (PCM) that works almost as good as grease but with none of the mess. You must have the proper pressure over time on the heat sink to the PCM to make this work well.\u00c2\u00a0 Obviously, we&#8217;d recommend our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qats.com\/SiteFiles\/File\/PS_superGRIP_Heat_Sink_Attachment_041009.pdf\">superGRIP<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/joday\/ats-maxi-flow-and-maxi-grip-technical-data-july-09-1754735\">maxiGRIP<\/a> for that task.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergquistcompany.com\/thermal_materials\/index.htm\">Bergquist<\/a>: Various types of thermal material.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/19\/berquist-adds-new-phase-change-thermal-interface-material-to-product-line\/\">Just announced a new phase change material<\/a> type.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/solutions.3m.com\/wps\/portal\/3M\/en_WW\/electronics\/home\/productsandservices\/products\/TapesAdhesives\/ThermalInterface\/\">3M<\/a>: Thermal tape, pads and epoxies<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aitechnology.com\/products\/thermalinterface\/\">AI Technology<\/a>: Phase Change Material and Thermal Grease<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lairdtech.com\/products\/thermal-management-solutions\/thermal-interface-materials\/\">Laird Technology<\/a>: Gap filler, Phase Change Material, Thermal Grease<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www51.honeywell.com\/sm\/em\/advanced-packaging.html\">Honeywell<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Phase Change Material and the innovative printable thermal material good to 150 degress C.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsi.com\/ThermalGrease.aspx\">Shin Etsu<\/a>: Thermal greases, thermal gels, Phase Change Material and more<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowcorning.com\/content\/etronics\/etronicspadsfilm\/\">Dow Corning Thermal<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Various thermal interface materials in both pads and films<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tds.loctite.com\/tds5\/search.asp?t=n&amp;lang=EN&amp;pg=16&amp;Q_PROP7=0&amp;Q_PROP18=0&amp;Q_PROP22=0\">Locktite Thermal<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 I won&#8217;t kid you, we aren&#8217;t fans of thermal epoxies but in some cases you just have to do it.\u00c2\u00a0 Locktite has some nice products for that and we know several telecomm OEMs using them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nusil.com\/\">NuSiL<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Offers low outgassing thermal interface material<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indium.com\/TIM\/\">Indium<\/a>:\u00c2\u00a0 Metal thermal interface materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a great deal of information out there on thermal interface material from the various manufacturers.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Surprisingly, much of it is very good and mostly neutral, like our presentation in our post from earlier today, &#8220;When to Use Thermal Interface &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/03\/17\/thermal-interface-material-resource-round-up-for-your-heat-sinks-and-thermal-engineering-design-needs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heat-sinks","category-thermal-interface-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}