Markus I. Flik
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

Chang-Lin Tien
NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California

Abstract

The discovery of superconductivity at liquid-nitrogen temperatures offers very promising prospects for the development of powerful hybrid electronic semiconductor-superconductor devices. The basic elements in these devices are thin films of high-T_c superconductors on crystalline substrates. This work discusses significant thermodynamic and heat and mass transfer problems arising from the application of thin-film superconductors and reviews the relevant literature. It covers processing techniques, characterization methods, thermal stability criteria, and microscale heat transfer phenomena.

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Illustration of composite TIMs with a percolation of spherical nanoparticles, and high aspect ratio nanowires.

NANOSTRUCTURED THERMAL INTERFACES

Photograph of copper/diamond sintered wick structure.

RECENT ADVANCES IN TWO-PHASE THERMAL GROUND PLANES

The microchannel with a single pillar used by Jung et al., and an SEM image of the pillar with a flow control slit at 180 deg (facing downstream).

ADVANCED CHIP-LEVEL LIQUID HEAT EXCHANGERS

Schematics of thermal boundary conductance calculations.

NONEQUILIRIUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS METHODS FOR LATTICE HEAT CONDUCTION CALCULATIONS

THERMAL PHENOMENA IN HIGH-Tc THIN-FILM SUPERCONDUCTORS

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THERMAL PHENOMENA IN HIGH-T_c THIN-FILM SUPERCONDUCTORS