A dielectric surface coating technique to enhance boiling heat transfer from high power microelectronics

• Published in: IEEE transactions on components, packaging, and manufacturing technology. Part A Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 656 - 663
• Main Authors: O'Connor, J.P., Seung Mun You, Price, D.C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1995
• Subjects: Boiling liquids; Coatings; Dielectric liquids; Dielectric materials; Electronic components; Heat flux; Heat losses; Heat sinks; Heat transfer; Microstructure; Saturation (materials composition); Semiconducting silicon; Silicon; Spraying; Surface phenomena; Surface resistance; Surface tension; Temperature; Testing; Thermal conductivity
• ISSN: 1070-9886; 1558-3678
• DOI: 10.1109/95.465166

Two benign methods of generating surface microstructures, "spraying" and "painting", provide pool boiling heat transfer enhancement. The methods do not require the target surface to be exposed to high stress environments, making them applicable to electronic component surfaces. The painted surface microstructures are applied to a rectangular, horizontally oriented surface, and provide up to a 85% reduction in incipient superheat. Between a 70 and 80% reduction in nucleate boiling superheats, and as much as a 100% increase in the maximum heat flux (critical heat flux-CHF), beyond that of the nontreated reference surface. The surface microstructures are also applied to a silicon test chip and tested at saturated and sub-cooled (45/spl deg/C) conditions using FC-72. At sub-cooled conditions, heat dissipation rates of 100 W/cm/sup 2/ were provided at junction temperatures of 85/spl deg/C, and the highest CHF observed was 159 W/cm/sup 2/, 224% higher than that from the untreated chip surface at saturated conditions.< >