Cross-linked carbon nanotube heat spreader

Gregory Konesky

doi:10.1117/12.2060314

10 September 2014 Cross-linked carbon nanotube heat spreader

Gregory Konesky

Proceedings Volume 9168, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Associated Devices VII; 91680O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060314
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Isolated individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have shown exceptional thermal conductivity along their axis, but have poor thermal transfer between adjacent CNTs. Thick bundles of aligned CNTs have been used as heat pipes, but the thermal input and output areas are the same, providing no heat spreading effect. Energetic argon ion beams are used to join, or cross-link overlapping CNTs in a thick film to form an interpenetrating network with an isotropic thermal conductivity of 2150 W/m-K. Such thick films may be used as heat spreaders to enlarge the thermal footprint of various electronic and semiconductor devices, laser diodes and CPU chips, for example, to enhance cooling.

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Gregory Konesky "Cross-linked carbon nanotube heat spreader", Proc. SPIE 9168, Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, and Associated Devices VII, 91680O (10 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060314

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