Present and future thermal interface materials for electronic devices

KM Razeeb, E Dalton, GLW Cross… - International Materials …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Packaging electronic devices is a growing challenge as device performance and power
levels escalate. As device feature sizes decrease, ensuring reliable operation becomes a …

Thermal interface materials with graphene fillers: review of the state of the art and outlook for future applications

JS Lewis, T Perrier, Z Barani, F Kargar… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current state-of-the-art graphene-enhanced thermal interface materials for the
management of heat in the next generation of electronics. Increased integration densities …

Oxide‐mediated formation of chemically stable tungsten–liquid metal mixtures for enhanced thermal interfaces

W Kong, Z Wang, M Wang, KC Manning… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Modern microelectronics and emerging technologies such as wearable devices and soft
robotics require conformable and thermally conductive thermal interface materials to …

Gallium-based liquid metal alloy incorporating oxide-free copper nanoparticle clusters for high-performance thermal interface materials

S Ki, J Shim, S Oh, E Koh, D Seo, S Ryu, J Kim… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal interface materials (TIMs) with high thermal conductivity, fluidic characteristics, and
surface wettability are crucial for the effective thermal management of high-power …

Effects of surface roughness, temperature and pressure on interface thermal resistance of thermal interface materials

JW Zhao, R Zhao, YK Huo, WL Cheng - … Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
Using thermal interface materials (TIMs) is generally considered an effective way to reduce
thermal contact resistance. In this paper, effects of surface roughness, temperature and …

High performance liquid metal thermal interface materials

S Chen, Z Deng, J Liu - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Conventional thermal interface materials (TIMs) as widely used in thermal management
area is inherently limited by their relatively low thermal conductivity. From an alternative, the …

In situ alloying of thermally conductive polymer composites by combining liquid and solid metal microadditives

MI Ralphs, N Kemme, PB Vartak… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Room-temperature liquid metals (LMs) are attractive candidates for thermal interface
materials (TIMs) because of their moderately high thermal conductivity and liquid nature …

A review of the performance and characterization of conventional and promising thermal interface materials for electronic package applications

MCK Swamy, Satyanarayan - Journal of Electronic Materials, 2019 - Springer
Thermal interface materials (TIMs) play a key role in reducing thermal resistance between
jointed solid surfaces in order to increase thermal transfer efficiency. A TIM is a thermally …

An anti-leakage liquid metal thermal interface material

K Huang, W Qiu, M Ou, X Liu, Z Liao, S Chu - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid metals (LMs) offer extremely low thermal resistance, and have been studied as an
emerging thermal interface material (TIM). In this work, we propose an improved form of …

Thermal interface materials for cooling microelectronic systems: present status and future challenges

RD Pathumudy, KN Prabhu - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2021 - Springer
Thermal management has become a challenging aspect particularly in the field of
microelectronics due to rapid miniaturization and massive scale integration. This has …