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Near-Junction Microfluidic Cooling for Wide Bandgap Devices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Avram Bar-Cohen ,
Joseph J. Maurer  and
Abirami Sivananthan
Avram Bar-Cohen
Affiliation:
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, 675 N. Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 22203.
Joseph J. Maurer
Affiliation:
Booz Allen Hamilton, 3811 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 650, Arlington, VA 22203.
Abirami Sivananthan*
Affiliation:
Booz Allen Hamilton, 3811 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 650, Arlington, VA 22203.
*
*(Email: abirami.sivananthan.ctr@darpa.mil)
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Abstract

GaN has emerged as the material of choice for advanced power amplifier devices for both industrial and defense applications but near-junction thermal barriers severely limit the inherent capability of high-quality GaN materials. Recent “embedded cooling” efforts, funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Microsystems Technology Office (DARPA-MTO), have focused on reduction of this near-junction thermal resistance, through the use of diamond substrates and efficient removal of the dissipated power with convective and evaporative microfluidics. An overview of the accomplishments of the DARPA Near-Junction Thermal Transport (NJTT) program and recent results from the on-going DARPA Intra-Chip Embedded Cooling (ICECool) program are provided. It is shown that growth or bonding of diamond to GaN epitaxy has enabled a 3-5× increase in power handling capability per transistor unit area, while use of microfluidic cooling has enabled heat fluxes of 30 kW/cm2 at the transistor level and 1 kW/cm2 at the die-level, for a 3-6× improvement in the total RF output power of GaN power amplifiers. These demonstrations provide near-term validation of the large improvement in output power gained through embedded cooling and confirm the potential for well above a 6× improvement in GaN power amplifier output power to the electrical, rather than thermal, limits of GaN.

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diamondelectronic materialnitride
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MRS Advances , Volume 1 , Issue 2: Energy and Sustainability , 2016 , pp. 181 - 195
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2016 

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