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Integrated Thermal Management for a High-Power-Density Silicon Carbide Power Module With Die-Level Heat Flux Over 1000 W/cm2

Tang, Weiyu  
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Huang, Xiangbo
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Chen, Zhixin
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December 30, 2025
Ieee Journal Of Emerging And Selected Topics In Power Electronics

As the continuous miniaturization of silicon carbide (SiC) devices promotes the die-level heat flux up to 1 kW/cm2, efficient thermal management is critical for the current load and reliability of power electronics. This work describes the design, fabrication, and performance of an integrated-cooling strategy for power electronics. The strategy includes a low thermal resistance package (directly bonded heat sinks by nanosilver sintering) and an integrated convective cooling approach [manifold microchannels (MMCs)]. After careful numerical optimization, three prototypes of SiC power modules were then fabricated to characterize their performance. The final design has demonstrated a six-chip compact package (~30 cm3, including heat sink and power devices), and heat fluxes over 1000 W/cm2 (total heat loss 1500 W) were dissipated with an ultralow thermal resistance of 9.85 mm2 .kW-1 at a flowrate of 2.16 L/min. A further benchmark comparison indicated that the microchannel cooling could simultaneously provide 80% and 83% lower thermal resistance and pumping power, respectively, than the conventional liquid-cooled power modules. Besides, this integrated-cooling architecture could enable two times higher output current through a fully compatible packaging process, which could provide a promising solution for the reliable compact integration of SiC devices.

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DOI
10.1109/JESTPE.2024.3524214
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105004065986

Author(s)
Tang, Weiyu  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Huang, Xiangbo

College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Chen, Zhixin

College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Sheng, Kuang

College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Wu, Zan

College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Date Issued

2025-12-30

Published in
Ieee Journal Of Emerging And Selected Topics In Power Electronics
Volume

13

Issue

2

Start page

2125

End page

2137

Subjects

Microchannels

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power density

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power modules

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silicon carbide (SiC)

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thermal management

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ultrahigh heat flux

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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POWERLAB  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

National Key Research and Development Program of China

2022YFB3604103

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May 12, 2025
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