Flat two-phase devices for the thermal management of electronics
TRL5
Marcia Barbosa Henriques Mantelli
Heat Pipe Laboratory
Thermal Management Systems
Heat pipes are among the most used thermal control systems of electronics. They are biphasic devices, partially filled with a working fluid, which use the phase change to transfer excess heat passively. To meet the demands of the electronics industry, they must be light, thin, plan, and adaptable.
Labtucal, coordinated by Prof. Marcia Mantelli, has the infrastructure to produce flat two-phase devices using diffusion bonding technology besides testing them.
In the present project, the Brazilian capacity to develop, design, fabricate, and test new devices will be united with the foreign partner�s ability to develop analytical and numerical models to be used as designing and optimization tools for these two-phase devices. Besides, new data analysis and treatment methods will be developed. By the end, new electronics cooling techniques for compact devices will be expected to be made available for commercial and industrial use. Besides, it is expected that international partnerships will be increasingly consolidated and that the potential of Labtucal, with its unique infrastructure, will be recognized worldwide, attracting new investments to Brazil.