Re:Boron arsenide crystals can dissipate the heat generated ...
by dskhatri on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:23PM
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There are interesting non-metallic materials already in large-scale production which serve as excellent heat sinks and pipes. As an example, pyrolytic graphite has a thermal conductivity several times greater than that of Cu:
https://www.mouser.com/m_new/panasonic/panasonicthermalgraph...
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Re:Boron arsenide crystals can dissipate the heat generated ...
by the8472 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:35PM
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Heat sinks and pipes don't matter all that much since you can simply increase the area to achieve higher conduction. The bottleneck is getting it from small chip hotspots to the heat spreader on top of the chip. So this would sit as a layer directly on top of the chip beneath the more conventional heat spreader.