CALCE/TMT Consortium

Cooling of high flux commercial and military applications is an active research area within CALCE. The Thermal Management Team (TMT) contributing to CALCE/CEEE including Bar-Cohen, Ohadi, Rogers, Dessiatoun, and Shooshtarii. Several projects are ongoing in this area. The Smart and Small Thermal Systems (S2TS) Team (led by Drs. Ohadi, Dessiatoun, and Shooshtari) house a number of projects in the Electronics Cooling area. For additional info on S2TS, please refer to here.

The Computer Aided Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) Electronic Products and Systems Center is sponsored by over 50 commercial corporate and government organizations from all facets of the electronics systems industry in developing methodologies, models, and design tools that address the design and manufacturing of electronic systems. CALCE is recognized as a founder and driving force behind the development and implementation of physics-of-failure (PoF) approaches to reliability and life cycle prediction, as well as a world leader in accelerated testing, and electronic parts selection and management.

The CALCE EPSC is currently at the forefront of international standards development for critical electronic systems having chaired the development of several reliability and part selection standards. In 1999, the CALCE EPSC became the first academic research facility in the world to be ISO 9001 certified. Major efforts of the CALCE EPSC include:

Thermal management of all electronic products is motivated by controlling each component at its required operating temperature range to minimize or eliminate thermally-induced failures.

Over the past few years, CALCE/TMT researchers have been investigating a number of cooling schemes that can be applied to electronic systems. These include natural graphite-based heat spreader, air cooling heat sink, single/two phase liquid cooling, cold plate with porous foams and other micro-structured surfaces. Thermal management is becoming increasingly critical to the electronics industry to satisfy the increasing market demand for fast, smaller, lighter and cheaper products.