.... BTE phonon transport microscale heat conduction finite volume solution acceleration Over the last two decades, thermal management has emerged as a critical bottleneck to the continued scaling of microelectronics [ 1 , 2 ]. The move to finFETs and thin-body multigate devices has led...

.... , Shabani , J. , Wang , X. , and Shakouri , A. , 2007 , “ Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal Characterization Techniques ,” Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies , THETA 1 , Cairo, Egypt , pp. 3 – 9 . [11] Farzaneh , M. , Maize , K. , Lüerßen , D. , Summers , J...

... 08 2011 11 04 2012 13 04 2012 heat conduction microscale modeling nanoporous thermoelectrics It has been increasingly recognized that thermal conductivity is no longer an intrinsic parameter as it is for bulk materials [( 1 2 )]. Nanostructured materials...

... with increasing saturation pressures and vapor qualities. The experimental data were mapped to the flow pattern maps developed by Hasan [2005, “Two-Phase Flow Regime Transitions in Microchannels: A Comparative Experimental Study,” Nanoscale Microscale Thermophys. Eng., 9, pp. 165–182] and Revellin and Thome [2007...

..., the correlations captured the correct heat transfer coefficient versus vapor quality trend. There is a need to develop better correlations to predict heat transfer coefficients for flow boiling of R134a at microscale. A new correlation was developed by adapting the Tran correlation. The proposed correlation...

... and Reflectance Measurements at Cryogenic Temperatures ,” Int. J. Thermophys. 0195-928X , 17 , pp. 1441 – 1454 . 10.1007/BF01438678 Zhang , Z. M. , 2007 , Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer , McGraw-Hill , New York . d thickness (m) e electron charge ( 1.602...

... was accelerated. heat exchanger microscale gas-to-gas effectiveness Ntu heat exchangers heat transfer microchannel flow numerical analysis 25 01 2008 30 09 2008 18 03 2009 Total temperature for h = 50 μ m and L = 12.7 mm As seen...

... layers. A microscale insulation concept has been proposed by Sandia National Laboratory ( 6 ). In this approach, small conical structures, < 10   μ m in length, are used to separate layers of silicon, providing an analog to multifoil insulation that is suitable for MEMS applications...

... , “ Microscale Radiation in Thermophotovoltaic Devices—A Review ,” Int. J. Energy Res. 0363-907X 10.1002/er.1286 , 31 , pp. 689 – 716 . Kim , S. H. , Park , J.-D. , and Lee , K.-D. , 2006 , “ Fabrication of a Nano-Wire Grid Polarizer for Brightness Enhancement in Liquid Crystal Display...

... ballistic range (m) ρ density ( kg ∕ m 3 ) Subscripts e electron i initial l lattice ℓ liquid s solid Wang , G. X. , and Prasad , V. , 2000 , “ Microscale Heat and Mass Transfer and Non...

... limited by the available cooling technology and space to accommodate the larger conventional air-cooled heat sinks. critical heat flux modeling critical heat flux boiling channel flow heat transfer microscale two phase boiling evaporation flow instability heat transfer microchannel...

... transfer laminar flow microchannel flow ultrahydrophobic microscale convection microribs nonwetting As fluid flow components shrink in physical size, classical theory indicates that the pressures required to drive a given flow increase substantially, often to extreme levels...

... temperature measurement nitrogen flow measurement experimental heat transfer microscale sensors thin films Flow and heat transfer through microchannels have been investigated during the last 20 years to determine if the small characteristic length causes deviation from continuum flow...

... micrometer), a considerable amount of the supplied heat at the evaporator wall flows through the so-called “micro region.” In this region, microscale effects such as adhesion forces and interfacial thermal resistance in combination with a strong curvature change of the liquid-vapor interface significantly...

... nucleation bubbles boiling channel flow heat transfer instability microscale stability two-phase visualization Presently, many advanced technologies, such as high speed processor chips and electronics components in high power lasers, have the requirement to dissipate increasingly high...

.... transient radiative transfer finite element absorbing and scattering media microscale non-intrusive diagnostics heat radiation finite element analysis least squares approximations variational techniques 19 06 2005 07 10 2005 2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

...C. J. Fu; Z. M. Zhang; D. B. Tanner The phenomenon of photon tunneling, which depends on evanescent waves for radiative transfer, has important applications in microscale energy conversion devices and near-field optical microscopy. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the so...

.... , and Goodson , K. E. , 1992 , “ Heat Transfer Regimes in Microstructures ,” ASME J. Heat Transfer , 114 , pp. 666 – 674 . Majumdar, A., 1998, “Microscale Energy Transport in Solids,” in Microscale Energy Transport , Tien, C.-L., Majumdar, A., and Gerner, F. M., eds., Taylor and Francis, Washington...

...Laurent Pilon; Kamal M. Katika This paper presents a new numerical scheme for simulating multidimensional transient and steady-state microscale energy transport. The new method is based on the method of characteristics that follows heat carriers along their pathline. Unlike traditional methods...

... roughness Knudsen flow Mach number friction etching compressibility slip flow Channel Flow Experimental Heat Transfer Microscale Rarefied Roughness As one of the basic elements of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS), microchannels have been utilized in micro-heat sinks, ink-jet...