Today's electronics packages are smaller and more powerful than ever before. This leads to ever increasing thermal challenges for the systems designer. The automotive electronic control unit (ECU) package faces the same challenge of thermal management as the industry in general. This is coupled with the latest European Union legislation (Euro 6 standard) which forced the ECU manufacturers to completely re-design their ECU platform with improved hardware and software capability. This will result in increased power densities and therefore, the ability to dissipate heat will be a key factor. A higher thermal conductivity (TC) material for the ECU housing (than the currently used Aluminium) could improve heat dissipation from the ECU. This paper critically reviews the state-of-the-art in thermal management materials which may be applicable to an automotive ECU. This review shows that of the different materials currently available, the Al/SiC composites in particular have very good potential for automotive ECU application. In terms of metal composites processing, the liquid metal infiltration process is recommended as it has a lower processing cost and it also has the ability to produce near netshape materials.


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    Titel :

    Investigation of thermal management materials for automotive electronic control units


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Untersuchung von Wärmemanagementwerkstoffen für elektronische Kraftfahrzeugsteuergeräte


    Beteiligte:
    Mallik, Sabuj (Autor:in) / Ekere, Ndy (Autor:in) / Best, Chris (Autor:in) / Bhatti, Raj (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Applied Thermal Engineering ; 31 , 2/3 ; 355-362


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2011


    Format / Umfang :

    8 Seiten, 4 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 42 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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