Solid-solid thermal boundary resistance plays an important role in determining heat flow, both in cryogenic and room-temperature applications, such as very large scale integrated circuitry, superlattices, and superconductors. The acoustic mismatch model (AMM) and the related diffuse mismatch model (DMM) describe the thermal transport at a solid-solid interface below a few Kelvin quite accurately. At moderate cryogenic temperatures and above, is dominated by scattering caused by various sources, such as damage in the dielectric substrates and formation of an imperfect boundary layer near the interface, making larger than that predicted by AMM and DMM. From a careful review of the literature on it seems that scattering near the interface plays a far more dominant role than any other mechanism. Though scattering near the interface has been considered in the past, these models are either far too complicated or are too simple (i.e., inaccurate) for engineering use. A new model, called the scattering-mediated acoustic mismatch model (SMAMM), is developed here that exploits the analogy between phonon and radiative transport by developing a damped wave equation to describe the phonon transport. Incorporating scattering into this equation and finding appropriate solutions for a solid-solid interface enable an accurate description of at high temperatures, while still reducing to the AMM at low temperatures, where the AMM is relatively successful in predicting
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A Scattering-Mediated Acoustic Mismatch Model for the Prediction of Thermal Boundary Resistance
Ravi S. Prasher,
Ravi S. Prasher
Assembly Technology and Development, Intel Corporation, CH5-157, 5000 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, AZ 85226-3699
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Patrick E. Phelan
Patrick E. Phelan
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6106
E-mail: phelan@asu.edu
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Ravi S. Prasher
Assembly Technology and Development, Intel Corporation, CH5-157, 5000 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, AZ 85226-3699
Patrick E. Phelan
E-mail: phelan@asu.edu
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6106
Contributed by the Heat Transfer Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER. Manuscript received by the Heat Transfer Division June 1, 1999; revision received, July 12, 2000. Associate Editor: A. Majumdar.
J. Heat Transfer. Feb 2001, 123(1): 105-112 (8 pages)
Published Online: July 12, 2000
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Prasher, R. S., and Phelan, P. E. (July 12, 2000). "A Scattering-Mediated Acoustic Mismatch Model for the Prediction of Thermal Boundary Resistance ." ASME. J. Heat Transfer. February 2001; 123(1): 105–112. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1338138
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