Abstract The thermal contact conductance across an epoxied copper junction loaded with Ag (silver) particles was investigated at cryogenic temperatures. Thermal contact conductance, or its inverse, thermal contact resistance, consists of two components: thermal contact resistance at the copper/Ag-particle epoxy interfaces, and the thermal conduction resistance across the Ag-particle epoxy slab. The effects of the Ag-particle volume fraction, and the average interface temperature of the epoxied junction are both evaluated. Increasing the Ag-particle fraction increases the conductance above that for a plain epoxied sample, by as much as one order of magnitude for a Ag particle fraction of 30%. A critical Ag particle volume fraction is observed in the measurements, below which value the thermal conductance of the epoxied junction increases only slightly with increasing particle fraction.
Experimental Results on the Thermal Contact Conductance of Ag-Filled Epoxied Junctions at Cryogenic Temperatures
Cryocoolers 11 ; 689-697
2002-01-01
9 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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