Particulate thermal interface materials (TIMs) are commonly used to transport heat from chip to heat sink. While high thermal conductance is achieved by large volume loadings of highly conducting particles in a compliant matrix, small volume loadings of stiff particles will ensure reduced thermal stresses in the brittle silicon device. Developing numerical models to estimate effective thermal and mechanical properties of TIM systems would help optimize TIM performance with respect to these conflicting requirements. Classical models, often based on single particle solutions or regular arrangement of particles, are insufficient as real-life TIM systems contain a distriubtion of particles at high volume fractions, where classical models are invalid. In our earlier work, a computationally efficient random network model was developed to estimate the effective thermal conductivity of TIM systems [1,2]. This model is extended in this paper to estimate the effective elastic modulus of TIMs. Realistic microstructures are simulated and analyzed using the proposed method. Factors affecting the modulus (volume fraction and particle size distribution) are also studied.
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ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems
August 29–September 1, 2017
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Estimation of Effective Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Particulate Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) by a Random Network Model
Pavan Kumar Vaitheeswaran,
Pavan Kumar Vaitheeswaran
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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Ganesh Subbarayan
Ganesh Subbarayan
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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Pavan Kumar Vaitheeswaran
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Ganesh Subbarayan
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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IPACK2017-74129, V001T02A020; 9 pages
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October 27, 2017
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Vaitheeswaran, PK, & Subbarayan, G. "Estimation of Effective Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Particulate Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) by a Random Network Model." Proceedings of the ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems collocated with the ASME 2017 Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems. ASME 2017 International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems. San Francisco, California, USA. August 29–September 1, 2017. V001T02A020. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/IPACK2017-74129
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