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    A complete carbon-nanotube-basedon-chip cooling solution with very highheat dissipation capacity

    AbstractHeat dissipation is one of the factors limiting the continuous miniaturization of electronics. In

    the study presented in this paper, we designed an ultra-thin heat sink using carbon nanotubes

    (CNTs) as micro cooling fins attached directly onto a chip. A metal-enhanced CNT transfer

    technique was utilized to improve the interface between the CNTs and the chip surface by

    minimizing the thermal contact resistance and promoting the mechanical strength of the

    microfins. In order to optimize the geometrical design of the CNT microfin structure,

    multi-scale modeling was performed. A molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) was carried

    out to investigate the interaction between water and CNTs at the nanoscale and a finite

    element method (FEM) modeling was executed to analyze the fluid field and temperaturedistribution

    at the macroscale. Experimental results show that water is much more efficient than air as a

    cooling medium due to its three orders-of-magnitude higher heat capacity. For a hotspot with

    a

    high power density of 5000 W cm2 , the CNT microfins can cool down its temperature by

    more than 40

    C. The large heat dissipation capacity could make this cooling solution meet the

    thermal management requirement of the hottest electronic systems up to date.

    (Some figures may appear in colour only in the online journal)

    Introduction:

    The development of integrated

    circuits has followed Moores law

    for more than 40 years.

    Continuous size shrinking of the

    transistors has allowed more

    components to be integrated in asingle unit area but

    simultaneously increased the

    power density in electronics to a

    high level that brings huge

    challenges [15] to traditional

    cooling schemes with

    a typical cooling capability ofabout 50 W cm2 [6, 7].Furthermore, the growth of chipfunctionality and complexity

    has introduced hotspots onto chipsurfaces, resulting in localizedheat fluxes up to 3001000 Wcm2 [810]. This adds extradifficulties to an efficient coolingbecause the high power densitydramatically decreases thecooling capability ofconventional heat sinks [8, 1114]. A poor cooling not only

    lowers the performance ofelectronic products but alsosignificantly shortens theirlifetime. Therefore, there is astrong demand in the electronicsindustry to develop highperformance cooling solution.

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    Figure 1. Design and fabrication process of the interface-enhanced CNT microfin on-chip cooling system. (a) Clean Si wafer with SiO2layer. (b) Fabrication of heating elements and temperature sensors on test chips. Temperature sensors are calibrated by standard RTD.(c) Evaporation of Ti/Au/In for CNTsubstrate interface enhancement. (d) Patterning of Al2 O3 /Fe catalyst layer (10/1 nm thick) for CNTgrowth on Si substrate by standard photolithography and lift-off processes. (e) Growth of CNT microfins by TCVD using acetylene ascarbon precursor. (f) Metal-enhanced CNT transfer onto the test chip surface acting as on-chip cooling microfins. Contact resistance isreduced and adhesion between CNTs and substrate is improved due to the metal enhancing layer. (g) A plastic cover is assembled ontothe test chip to form microchannels. The cover is transparent so thatthe CNT microfins and coolant flow in the microchannels are visible.(h) CNT cooling fin integrated test chip soldered onto supporting substrate. (i) 3D structure in (h). (j), (k) Coolant flow path assembledonto the test chip using adhesive. (l) The test chip with on-chip CNT cooling fins packaged by PDMS for mechanical protection.

    As a potential solution, a liquid-assisted microchannel

    cooling scheme was proposed because of the large heat

    exchange area, small size, light weight, etc [15]. In

    the past few decades, progress has been reported on

    developing integration schemes and realizing the great

    potential for electronics cooling by this approach [2, 3,

    1518]. Experimental results showed that a coolingcapability of 38790 W cm

    2 could be achieved.However, it shouldbe mentioned that all these cooling effects were obtained

    on uniformly heated chip surfaces. Introducing hotspots intothe chips, thus increasing the power density factor (power

    density factor is the ratio of package thermal resistance at

    the hottest spot to the die-area-normalized uniform power

    resistance [11], e.g. for a hotspot with area A1 located at the

    center of a die with area A2 , the power density factor equals

    A2 /A1 ), the cooling performance of these demonstrators

    could be degraded by an order of magnitude [8, 10, 11, 13].

    This is attributed to the highly non-uniform temperature

    distribution. In order to make full use of the advantage of the

    microchannel cooler, more efficient cooling fins, better heat

    spreading on the chip surface and through the chipcooler

    interface need to be created.

    Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been reported to possesshigh thermal conductivity up to 6600 W m

    1 K1 [1924]

    and have thus attracted intensive interest in using them as

    high performance thermal interface materials (TIMs) [25

    30] for effectively dissipating heat from active components

    to heat sinks. However, this alone cannot fully realize the

    cooling

    purpose if the thermal energy generated by components

    exceeds the cooling capability of the heat sinks [1, 31].

    Therefore, CNTs were proposed to be used as

    microchannel cooling fins due to their special geometrical

    structure, outstanding mechanical properties [32, 33] and

    exceptional thermal performance. A primary enhancement of

    15 W cm2 of heat dissipation was achieved using water as

    the coolant [34, 35]. A more recent investigation by Kordas

    et al showed that CNT microfins can dissipate 100 W cm2

    more power under forced nitrogen (N2 ) convection [36].Having these gains in cooling capability demonstrated, we

    report a design of directly fabricating CNT microfins onto

    chip surfaces to make microchannels for extremely high

    efficiency water-assisted cooling, thus integrating the

    benefits from both the microchannel structure and the high

    thermally conductive CNTs (figure 1). The fabrication

    process was based on an active thermal test chip with

    integrated heating elements and thermal sensing function

    (figure 1(b)). A unique metal-enhanced CNT transfer method

    was applied to plant the previously grown CNT microfins

    onto the test chip surface (figures 1(b) and (f)) so that the

    contact resistance was reduced and the mechanical

    connection was improved [37]. The test chip was then

    soldered onto a supporting substrate (figures 1(g) and (h)).

    After the assembly of the coolant flow path (figures 1(i)

    (k)), the entire functional system was packaged in

    polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) (figure 1(l)). To assist

    designing the cooling system, multi-scale modeling was

    performed to optimize the CNT microfin structures.

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    Figure 2. (a) Configuration of a (5, 5) CNT and water contact interface Since a periodic boundary condition is applied inthis simulation,the CNT and water structure can be considered as having an infinite length. (b) Temperature distribution on the Si chip and microfinstructure, under a power density of 400 W cm

    2, a water velocity of 0.1 m s1 and a channel width of 50 m. (c) Dependence of on-chip

    temperature and pressure drop on the microchannel width. The on-chip temperature decreases linearly with smaller channel width whilepressure drop between channel inlet and outlet increases exponentially with decreasing channel width. The coolant velocity is 0.1 m s

    1.

    2. Experiments and modeling

    2.1. Fabrication of the test chip

    layer. These two water layers both remain a thickness of 2 A

    . The interfacial contact resistance between CNT and wateris then calculated by

    The test chip was integrated with heating resistors and

    temperature sensors, acting as a platform for simulating a

    real

    1Rthermal =

    T A

    Q(1)

    electronic component to demonstrate the cooling capability

    of the entire system. The temperature sensors were made

    of titanium/platinum/gold (Ti/Pt/Au) with a thickness of

    20/180/50 nm. The Ti layer was used to promote theadhesion between Pt and the SiO2 surface. Pt was

    selected as the temperature-sensing material due to itsexcellent temperature

    resistance linear relationship up to 800 C [38]. The Au

    layer

    on the top can protect the sensor from erosion and ease the

    soldering of the test chip onto a supporting substrate. Once

    fabricated, the sensors were calibrated by a standard

    resistance temperature detector (RTD) [39]. The repeatable

    and stable reading from the sensors ensures a reliable

    temperature measurement for characterizing the cooling

    system.

    2.2. Multi-scale modeling foroptimizing CNTmicrofin structure

    Because the performance of heat sinks is closely related to

    the geometry of the cooling fins and the water flow in the

    microchannels [31, 40], multi-scale modeling was carried out

    to optimize the CNT microfin structure.

    It has been known that the contact resistance between

    CNTs and the surrounding medium plays an important role

    on the thermal transportation through the interfaces [4143].

    In our study, water is driven to flow through the

    microchannels to remove thermal energy from the CNT

    microfins. It is therefore crucial to clarify how efficient is the

    heat transferred through the CNTwater interface. Molecular

    dynamics simulation (MDS) was herein executed to

    investigate the interaction between water and CNTs. Figure2(a) shows the configuration of a (5, 5) CNT (lies at the

    center) and the surrounding water molecules. A heat flux Q

    is loaded onto the CNT wall and spreads outwards the

    water. The blue layer highlights the water layer which is the

    most adjacent to the CNT surface,

    while a heat flux ofQ is loaded on the outer green water

    where 1T is the temperature difference between the CNT

    surface and the blue water layer, and A is the area of the

    CNT wall. More details on the MDS are presented in figure

    S1 (available atstacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia).

    Calculation results show that a contact resistance of

    1.47 107 K m2 W

    1 exists on the interface, which

    is subsequently applied as the input to the finite elementmethod (FEM) simulation. As a result of the comprise

    of the computational time and modeling precision, five

    microfins are bonded by a thin TIM layer to the chip

    surface in the FEM model. Figure 2(b) shows an example

    of how the coolant flows through the microchannels and the

    final temperature distribution on the Si chip and microfins.

    The dependence of temperature and pressure drop on the

    microchannel dimension is extracted after the numerical

    calculations, as plotted in figure 2(c) (more details are

    available in the supporting material available at stacks.iop.

    org/Nano/23/045304/mmedia). The temperature on the chip

    decreases approximately linearly with smaller channel width.

    Nevertheless the pressure drop between the channel inlet and

    outlet increases exponentially with decreasing channel width.

    Therefore, from a thermal dissipation point of view, smaller

    channel width is favorable. However, for the energy-saving

    and reliability consideration, a larger channel width is

    preferable. To handle this trade-off, a microchannel width of

    50 m is selected for building up the demonstrator.

    In the FEM modeling, thermal conductivity of theCNT fins was set to be 50 W m

    1 K1 in the direction

    perpendicular to the tubes and 3000 W m1 K

    1 [22]along the tube axis. In order to compare with traditional

    materials such as copper and take the porosity of CNT fins

    into consideration, thermal conductivity of the cooling fins

    along the tube axis varying from 10 to 3000 W m1 K1

    were simulated. The thermal conductivity in the direction

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    Figure 3. CNT microfins transferred onto the test chip. (a) The test chip with integrated heating elements and temperature sensors. (b)CNT microfins grown on Si substrate with a height of about 250 m and in a pitch of 100 m, following the optimized dimension bymulti-scale modeling. 10/1 nm Al2 O3 /Fe was utilized as the catalyst for CNT growth and acetylene (C2 H2 ) is utilized as carbon precursor.The growthwas performed at a low pressure 10 mbar. (c) Locally magnified image of CNT appearance in the microfins. (d) CNT microfinstransferring from the growth chip to the test chip. Prior to contact with the melting In on the test chip, the as-grown CNT microfins weresputtered by 20/100 nm thick Ti/Au on the tips in order to enhance the interface. A multilayer of 20/100/1000 nm thick Ti/Au/In wasevaporated onto the test chip as the transfer receptor. The transfer process was performed using a flip chip bonder so that the temperatureon both of the two chips can be controlled and the CNT microfins can be placed at the desired position. (e) CNT microfins transferred ontothe test chip.

    perpendicular to the tube axis was correspondingly modified

    with the same factor. Results show that, when the thermal

    conductivity is relatively low, the cooling effect of the

    microfins increases exponentially with increasing thermal

    conductivity, whereas the improvement of the cooling effect

    becomes smaller and smaller when the thermal conductivity

    is higher than 100 W m1 K

    1 (see figure S1(c) available

    at stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia). This agrees well

    with the theoretical calculation for rectangular fins mounted

    on a flat surface [44].

    2.3. CNT microfin transfer

    Although CNTs themselves possess outstanding thermal and

    mechanical properties, their real performance in devices is

    greatly limited and degraded by three factors, (a) the huge

    contact resistance between the CNT ends and the substrate

    surface [27, 30, 45], (b) the high growth temperature [46, 47]

    of CNTs and (c) the weak van der Waals binding between

    the CNTs and the growth substrate [48, 49]. In order to

    remove these obstacles, we developed an interface-enhanced

    CNT transfer technique to plant the CNT microfins onto the

    test chip from the original growth substrate [37].The microfin structures were defined by standard

    photolithography and lift-off processes. The CNTs were

    grown by thermal chemical vapor deposition (TCVD) at low

    pressure with a 10/1 nm thick Al2 O3 /Fe layer as catalyst

    [50]. The height of the CNT microfins was controlled by

    adjusting the growth time to be about 250 m in this study

    (figures 3(b) and (c)). After growth, 20/100 nm thick Ti/Au

    was sputtered onto the CNT tips. On the other hand, a

    multilayer of Ti/Au/In with thicknesses of 20/100/1000 nm

    was evaporated onto the test chip surface for CNT microfin

    transfer (figure 1(c)). The Ti layer sputtered onto the CNT

    tips can effectively decreases the contact resistance [37, 51]

    and Au was demonstrated to have very good interaction

    behavior with low melting point metal In [52]. The transfer

    process was performed using a flip chip bonder so that

    both the test chip and the growth chip can be properly

    heated up, and the CNT microfins can be placed at the

    desired position (figures 1(f) and

    3(d)). After the transfer process, electrical characterization

    on the CNT structures indicated that the CNTsubstrate

    resistance is reduced by one order of magnitude with the

    presence of a Ti/Au enhancing layer [37]. Shear test on

    the substrate (growth)CNTsubstrate (target chip) bonding

    structure showed that the shear strength between CNTs and

    the target substrate surface is improved by about two ordersof magnitude [37]. More details on the electrical

    characterization and shear test of the transferred CNTs are

    presented in figure S2 (available at

    stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia).

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    Figure 4. CNT on-chip cooling system assembly. (a) Side view of the CNT microfin mounted test chip soldered onto the supportingsubstrate. The total thickness including the test chip itself is about 1.5 mm. (b) Top view of the test chip soldered onto the supportingsubstrate. The CNT microfins are visible through the transparent lid which eases the observation when coolant flows through themicrochannels. (c) Coolant flow path is assembled using adhesive. (d) PDMS-encapsulated CNT on-chip cooling system. The circuit onthe substrate is used for electrical powering and temperature measurement. The two nozzles are used for coolant flowing through themicrochannels.

    2.4. On-chip cooling systempackaging

    Once the CNT microfins were transferred onto the test chipsurface, a plastic lid was covered on the top of the CNT

    microfins to create microchannels (figure 1(g)). The lid is

    transparent so that the CNT fins and water flow are visible

    during the whole experiment process. Then, the test chip

    with on-chip microfin channels was soldered onto a

    supporting Si substrate for electrical connection (figures

    1(h), 4(a) and (b)). Afterwards, two aluminum chambers

    were attached onto two ends of the test chip to introduce

    coolant into and out of the microchannels (figure 1(j)).

    Finally, the coolant inlet and outlet nozzles were mounted

    onto the aluminum chamber using an adhesive (figures 1(k)

    and 4(c)). After the coolant flow path was assembled,

    PDMS was used to encapsulate the whole system (figure4(d)) to protect it from mechanical damage and to prevent

    coolant leakage.

    3. Results and discussion

    In order to characterize the on-chip cooling performance

    of the CNT microfins, a pump was used to drive air

    and water flowing through the microchannels as coolant

    (figure 5(a) and the supplementary movie available at stacks.

    iop.org/Nano/23/045304/mmedia). The test chip was heated

    up by a small hotspot (390 400 m2 ) located at the

    center of the chip, which results in a very large powerdensity factor of 320 cm

    2 [11]. Thermal energy was spreadoutward to the entire chip surface and to the CNT microfins

    through the TiAuInAuTi metal interfaces. Results show

    that, with water as coolant, the chip temperature can be

    dramatically decreased from an up-limit point (150

    C,which is close to the melting point of transfer materialIn) to below 100

    C under an extremely high local heatflux of 5000 W cm

    2 (figure 5(b)). With a higher watervelocity, there is stronger heat exchange between the CNT

    microfins and water, thereby leading to a continuous

    decrease of chip temperature. On the other hand, keeping the

    constant

    temperature on the chip surface, 100

    C for instance, the

    on-chip cooling system can easily dissipate 2000 W cm2

    more power with water velocity increased from 0.048 m s1

    to relatively higher, 0.323 m s1 . In order to compare

    with traditional air cooling, air was also driven through the

    microchannel structure prior to the water cooling. With anair flow velocity of 3.23 m s

    1 , which is almost two orders

    of magnitude higher than water velocity at 0.048 m s1 ,

    the chip temperature is still much higher than that of watercooling (for example, under a heat flux of 3000 W cm

    2 ,chip temperature is about 120

    C with air cooling comparedto105

    C with water

    cooling).

    Compared with the traditional forced air convectioncooling method which can achieve 50 W cm

    2 coolingcapability [6, 7], the CNT microfin on-chip cooling scheme

    has demonstrated the ability to handle a heat flux as

    high as 7000 W cm2 , and this can be even higher

    with thicker CNT microfins and higher water velocity. In

    contrast to previous research results using other materials

    as microchannel cooling fins, the structure demonstrated in

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    Figure 5. (a) PDMS-packaged CNT microfin on-chip cooling system connected with coolant source and power source. CNT microfinsare still visible after packaging. (b) CNT microfin on-chip cooling performance characterization using water and air as coolant. Althoughair velocity is more than one order of magnitude higher, the cooling capability is still much lower than that of water. With increasing watervelocity, the temperature on the test chip is dramatically decreased under the same power load. For instance, at a local heat flux of5000 W cm

    2, the chip can be cooled down from 138 to 98

    C with water velocity increases from 0.081 to 0.323 m s1. (c) Cooling

    efficiency comparison between the on-chip cooler with and without cooling fins. Using air as coolant, the two coolers havesimilar efficiency, whereas using water as coolant, the cooler with CNT fins has higher efficiency.

    this study has a power density factor which is two ordersof magnitude higher(320 cm2 versus 14 cm2 ) [2,3,1317, 53] while still dissipating much higher heat flux on

    the chip. More detailed comparisons with previous results are

    listed in table S2 (available at

    stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/ mmedia). We attribute the

    high cooling efficiency to three factors: (a) low contact

    thermal resistance due to the enhanced CNTsubstrate

    interface. The TiAuInAuTi-enhancing layer can

    decrease the contact resistance by more than one order

    of magnitude [37]. (b) Effective heat transport originated

    from the intrinsic high thermal conductivity of the

    CNTs [1924] and (c) from the extremely large

    surface/volume ratio of the unique one-dimensional CNTstructure. In figure S3 (available at stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/

    045304/mmedia), we have verified that water can enter the

    space between the CNTs in the microfins. Assume the

    CNTs in the forest have a configuration as shown in figure

    S4 (available at stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia), the

    porosity in the CNT forest is about 91.4%, which is very

    close to the experimentally measured value (92%) for typical

    CVD-synthesized multi-walled CNTs [54]. In this case, the

    heat exchange area of the CNT microfins is about 1000

    times higher than that of traditional copper fins (see detailed

    calculation in figure S4 available at stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/

    045304/mmedia).

    Air was also driven through the CNT microfins.However, the cooling capability is much lower even if the air

    velocity is about two orders of magnitude higher than the

    water velocity. This is reasonable since water has three

    orders-of-magnitude higher volume heat capacity than air,

    i.e. assuming the same temperature difference between

    water/air and CNT microfins, the air velocity has to be three

    orders of magnitude higher than that of water in order to

    dissipate the same amount of thermal energy.

    An on-chip cooler without CNT cooling fins was

    also fabricated following the same processes as described

    above for comparison. The packaged device is shown in

    figure S5(a) (available at stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia). Cooling examination was carried out under the

    same conditions as loaded on the CNT cooler. Detailed

    experimental results are displayed in figure S5(b) (availableat stacks.iop.o r g/Nano/23/045304/mmedia). Similar to the

    CNT cooler, the cooling efficiency of the cooler without

    cooling fins increases with increasing coolant velocity.

    Furthermore, the cooler without cooling fins presented

    similar cooling efficiency, compared to the CNT cooler,

    when air was used as the coolant, as shown in figure 5(c).

    However, replacing air by water as coolant, the cooling

    efficiency of the CNT cooler was obviously higher than the

    cooler without cooling fins. We attribute the different

    cooling behavior (little difference in cooling efficiency

    when using air as coolant but large difference when using

    water as coolant) to the different heat capacity of air andwater.

    4. Conclusions

    We have demonstrated the application of interface-enhanced

    CNTs as on-chip cooling fins in a microchannel heat

    sink. Although the cooling performance becomes more and

    more stable after the thermal conductivity of the cooling

    fins is higher than 100 W m1 K

    1 , the extremely large

    heat exchange area in the CNT microfins makes the heat

    dissipation very efficient so that the on-chip cooling structure

    can handle a heat flux at 1000 W cm2 scale with the

    assistance of water. Benefiting from the metal-enhanced

    CNT interface, the excellent thermal performance and the

    huge surface/volume ratio of CNTs, this water-assisted CNT

    microfin on-chip cooling solution exhibits a great capability

    of cooling down very high power density electric

    components, and is possible to meet the requirement for

    managing the thermal budget of the hottest electronic

    systems to date.

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