Composite Thermal Interface Material Including Aligned Nanofibers

Applications

• Electronics
• Optics
• Aerospace

Advantages

• Increased thermal performance - orders of magnitude improvement due to:
• high thermal conductivity of aligned carbon nanotubes
• minimized contact resistance
• Compliant - conforms to nanofiber and substrate topographies
• Variety of possible geometries

Publications

• Panzer, M.; Zhang, G.; Mann, D.; Hu, X.; Pop, E.; Dai, H.; Goodson, K.E.; "Thermal Properties of Metal-Coated Vertically-Aligned Single Wall Nanotube Films", Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronics Systems, 30 May-2 June 2006, pages 1306 - 1313.

Web Site

Goodson Lab

Patents

• Published Application: 20090068387
• Issued: 8,389,119 (USA)