Investigation of On-Chip Hot Spot Cooling Using Microchannel Heat Sink

Abstract:

With the increase of performance demands, the nonuniformity of on-chip power dissipation becomes greater, causing localized high heat flux hot spots that can degrade the processor performance and reliability. In this paper, a three-dimensional model of the copper microchannel heat sink, with hot spot heating and background heating on the back, was developed and used for numerical simulation to predict the hot spot cooling performance. The hot spot is cooled by localized cross channels. The pressure drop, thermal resistance and effects of hot spot heat flux and fluid flow velocity on the cooling of on-chip hot spots, are investigated in detail.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 455)
• Pages: 466-469
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.455.466
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Yun Chuan Wu, Shang Long Xu, Chao Wang
• Keywords: Cooling, Heat Sink, Hot Spot, Micro-Channel, Numerical Simulation

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