Additively manufactured impinging air jet cooler for high-power electronic devices

Beomjin Kwon, Thomas Foulkes, Tianyu Yang, Nenad Miljkovic, William P. King

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Abstract

We report an air jet cooler made with additive manufacturing. The air jet cooler directs an impinging air jet directly onto electronic devices. The jet system was fabricated by a single manufacturing process using a resin-based three-dimensional printer, and monolithically integrates two nozzles, air delivery channel, flow distributor and mechanical fixtures within a volume of 80x80x80 mm3. To demonstrate the viability of the jet cooler, high power gallium nitride (GaN) transistors were cooled using air jets at up to 195 m/sec. With the air jet, a GaN transistor could dissipate heat flux up to 60 W/cm2, which was 7X larger than the maximum allowable heat flux under natural convection cooling. The air jet cooler is also capable of rapid switching of the cooling air. Direct impingement of air jet could reduce the GaN transistor temperature by ~70°C within 11 seconds. This work demonstrates the potential of additively manufactured air jet coolers as a compact thermal management scheme for high-power electronics. Since the geometry of the air jet coolers can be easily tailored to various shapes, the demonstrated concept can be applied for cooling a variety of electronics with different topologies and different layouts of hot spots.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages941-945
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781728124612
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2019
Event18th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2019 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: May 28 2019May 31 2019

Publication series

NameInterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITHERM
Volume2019-May
ISSN (Print)1936-3958

Conference

Conference18th InterSociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, ITherm 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period5/28/195/31/19

Keywords

  • Additive manufacturing
  • Convection cooling
  • High-power electronics
  • Impinging air jet
  • Jet nozzle

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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