NICOP - Pulsating Micro Jets for Direct Chip Cooling

A two-year collaborative work is proposed for developing new direct liquid cooling techniques at the micro scale. Single-phase pulsating and actively controlled impinging micro jets will be combined with a micro-gap flow in order to cool very high heat flux surfaces as found in future micro-electronics (Fig. 1). This extensive collaborative effort brings together experts in micro- scale thermal management, jet-flow fluid dynamics, active flow control, and micro actuators and micro fabrication (MEMS). Furthermore, close cooperation with our US colleagues with similar fields of expertise (M. Amitay, Y. Peles) is envisioned.