Graphene Heat Spreader for Thermal Management of Hot Spots

Paper in proceedings, 2013

Monolayer graphene was fabricated using thermal chemical vapor deposition (TCVD) as heat spreaders in electronic packaging. Platinum (Pt) thermal evaluation chips were utilized to evaluate the thermal performance of the graphene heat spreaders. Temperature of hot spot driven at a heat flux of up to 430W·cm -2 was decreased by about 13 °C with the attaching of the graphene heat spreader. We demonstrate the potentials of using CMOS compatible TCVD process to make graphene as heat spreader for power dissipation needs. © 2013 IEEE.