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Integration of Jet Impingement with Enhanced Pin Fin Structures for In-Chip Cooling of Power Electronics

Elhagali, Ibrahim Osama  
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Zhu, Hongkeng  
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Tang, Weiyu  
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September 24, 2025
2025 31st International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC)
2025 31st International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC)

Liquid cooling in thermal management systems has been implemented mostly through the use of thermal interface materials, which introduce in in-series parasitic thermal resistances and reduced thermal performance. To achieve the full potential of liquid cooling, cooling structures should be fabricated directly in-chip, enabling effective heat transfer near the junction. In this work, we investigate an integrated cooling module encompassing enhanced fin structures (diamond-shaped and square pin fins) with an impinging jet manifold. Low thermal resistance of 0.1 cm2.K/W was achieved, while consuming a record low pumping power of 40μ W/mm2 using 25 μm channel width. Our approach was compared with bulky traditional fan cooling and no cooling cases, and resulted in 6.6x and 62 x reduction in thermal resistance, respectively. The cooling structure was directly fabricated at the back side of a GaN power IC which resulted in a thermal resistance of 1 K/W at 10 mW pumping power, 6.6 K/W thermal resistance was realized using fan cooling. Furthermore, 37 % increase in dynamic on-resistance (Ron) was reported at 10 W power dissipation using fan cooling, which was reduced to 12 % when using our approach at 15 W power dissipation.

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DOI
10.1109/therminic65879.2025.11216913
Author(s)
Elhagali, Ibrahim Osama  

EPFL

Zhu, Hongkeng  

EPFL

Tang, Weiyu  

EPFL

Matioli, Elison  

EPFL

Date Issued

2025-09-24

Publisher

IEEE

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2025 31st International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC)
DOI of the book
10.1109/THERMINIC65879.2025
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1

End page

4

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REVIEWED

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POWERLAB  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
2025 31st International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC)

Naples, Italy

2025-09-24 - 2025-09-26

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Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

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November 7, 2025
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