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Georgia Tech Heat Lab
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After nearly 25 years of intensive development of science at the nanoscale, marked by numerous important discoveries, we now have a tremendous amount of knowledge and tools to exploit nanoscience in applications. Applications in energy and microelectronics, foundations of modern society, are uniquely positioned to benefit from the different physics at the nanoscale, which, with continued efforts, may bring the miracles we need to solve some of societies most pressing challenges. I will tell the story of the Heat lab’s contributions to this journey through the lens of the following specific application. Thermal Interface Materials: Thermal management is a critical challenge for electronics. It can limit performance and operational life, and, today, poor heat transfer at the material contacts is the major problem in many commercial packages. We have developed vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) and pure polymer nanotube (PNT) arrays to achieve reduced thermal contact resistance in electronic packages. Our work has discovered critical bottlenecks to heat transfer and new modes of enhanced thermal transport in these materials, and has allowed us to engineer new material combinations to mitigate thermal contact resistance in a reliable way. Our efforts are enabled by precise thermal metrology – photacoustic and time-domain thermoreflectance – and expertise in nanomaterials synthesis and characterization. I will also discuss briefly an overview of the Heat Lab’s capabilities in measurement, simulation, and innovation that are available to internal and external users.
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Baratunde Cola - Georgia Istitute of Technology |
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 Dr. Cola is co-founder and co-director of the Heat Lab (heat.gatech.edu) at Georgia Tech. He is an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his degrees from Vanderbilt University and Purdue University, all in mechanical
engineering, and was a starting fullback on the Vanderbilt football team as an undergrad. Dr. Cola has received a number of prestigious early career research awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 2012 from President Obama for his work
in nanotechnology, energy, and outreach to high school art and science teachers and students; the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science in 2013; and recently the 2015 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Cola is the founder of Carbice Nanotechnologies, which sells a leading thermal management solution for chip burn-in and testing. |
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