Experimental investigation of micro grooved heat pipes on silicon and aluminum

As the electronic components get more and more miniaturized, their thermal management becomes more and more challenging. High heat flux and requiring no moving parts are of benefits that has brought micro-grooved heat pipes as an effective heat removal method, to researchers’ attention in recent years. In current study, thermal performance of an array of 50 micro-grooved heat pipes fabricated on aluminum and filled with DI water is experimentally investigated; temperature distribution along the heat pipes is read and reported under different operating conditions