{"id":612,"date":"2010-04-30T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatsinks.wordpress.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:51:58","slug":"does-thermal-grease-used-for-heat-sinks-have-a-long-term-reliability-risk-an-ats-thermal-labs-white-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/04\/30\/does-thermal-grease-used-for-heat-sinks-have-a-long-term-reliability-risk-an-ats-thermal-labs-white-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Does thermal grease used for heat sinks have a long term reliability risk?  An ATS Thermal Labs White Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal Grease used as thermal interface material for heat sinks is perhaps the best material today. It&#8217;s relatively cost effective and just plain works. But, as in all thermal management products, it&#8217;s not perfect and there are drawbacks that have to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>In ATS Thermal Labs latest white paper, we talk about those drawbacks an in particular if there are issues of long term reliability in using thermal grease as a thermal interface material. The implications are very important as they will affect your electronic equipments MTBF. You can get a copy by clicking to this link, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/qats.com\/cpanel\/UploadedPdf\/Qpedia_Thermal_eMagazine_0310_V5_for%20Web1.pdf#page=12\">Long Term Thermal Grease Reliability<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermal Grease used as thermal interface material for heat sinks is perhaps the best material today. It&#8217;s relatively cost effective and just plain works. But, as in all thermal management products, it&#8217;s not perfect and there are drawbacks that have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/2010\/04\/30\/does-thermal-grease-used-for-heat-sinks-have-a-long-term-reliability-risk-an-ats-thermal-labs-white-paper\/\">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":[11,22,26,27,28,30,61,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clip","category-grease","category-heat-sink","category-heat-sink-attach","category-heat-sink-clip","category-heat-sinks","category-thermal-grease","category-thermal-interface-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qats.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}