Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 12, Issue 2, 124(2016)

Thermal behavior of silicon-copper micro vapor chamber for high power LEDs

Yi LUO1,*... Zhi-xin LI2, Chuan-peng ZHOU2, Xiao-dong WANG1 and Bo YOU2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • 2Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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    Micro vapor chamber (MVC) for light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be designed and fabricated to enhance the heat dissipation efficiency and improve the reliability. In this paper, we used photoresist SU-8 and electroforming copper (Cu) to fabricate three kinds of wick structures, which are star, radiation and parallel ones, and the substrate is silicon with thickness of 0.5 mm. Electroforming Cu on silicon to make micro wick structure was a critical step, the ampere-hour factor was used, and accordingly the electroforming time was predicted. The composition of electroforming solution and parameters of electroforming were optimized too. After charging and packaging, thermal behavior tests were carried out to study the heat dissipation performance of MVCs. When the input power was 8 W, the parallel wick structure reached the equivalent temperature of 69.0 °C in 226 s, while the others were higher than that. The experimental results prove that the wick structures have significant influence on the heat transfer capability of MVCs.

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    LUO Yi, LI Zhi-xin, ZHOU Chuan-peng, WANG Xiao-dong, YOU Bo. Thermal behavior of silicon-copper micro vapor chamber for high power LEDs[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2016, 12(2): 124

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    Received: Dec. 17, 2015

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Yi LUO (luoy@dlut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-016-5264-6

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