Prof. Damena Agonafer, Director of the NEIT Lab, was an invited speaker at the 12th International Conference of the Materials Research Society, held in Kigali, Rwanda. Prof. Agonafer’s talk, delivered as part of the Sustainable Electronics track, addressed the critical challenges in next-generation thermal management technologies for state-of-the-art GPUs and CPUs used in AI/ML workloads […]
Kidus Guye presented his work on designing and modeling a novel hollow micropillar evaporator for high AI/ML workloads in state-of-the-art data centers for low PUE two-phase cooling. This work is part of the ARPA-e COOLERCHIPS project geared towards developing next-generation liquid cooling technologies with significantly low junction-to-coolant thermal resistance, with PUE lower than 1.02. Also
Dr. Vivek Pandey joins the NEIT Lab as a PostDoc to primarily support the effort to develop evaporative cooling cold plates for data centers and also advise the graduate students on other two-phase cooling technologies. He brings extensive experience building hybrid-cooled data centers and heat sink topology optimization from the National University of Singapore. We
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Exciting new paper about 3-component composite PCM. Results suggest these composites outperform pure copper in reducing peak device temperatures under transient heat loads, showing promise for efficient thermal management in electronics. Pre-released version can be found here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10477652
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We recently won the UMD-Northrop Grumman Innovation grant! We will be using the grant to study micro-encapsulated PCM slurry based microchannel cooling for high powered electronics.
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Vivek presented his research on thermal and electro-mechanical modeling of vacuum field effect transistors at the North Atlantic Thermal Analysis Conference (NATAS). The conference was held in Rockville, Maryland in June 2023. This research is funded by AFOSR MURI on vacuum field effect nano-electronics.
Kidus Guye presented his work titled ‘Development of a Novel Direct-to-Chip Evaporator using Hollow Micropillars for Thermal Management in High Heat Flux Applications’ at NASA’s 34th Thermal & Fluids Analysis Workshop held in College Park from August 21-24. His work was very well received and he received second place in the poster presentation for a
Emils Jurcik joins NEIT lab this fall 2023 as a PhD student. He is co-advised by Prof. Samuel Graham and Prof. Agonafer. He got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University and worked in the industry for a year prior to joining UMD. He will work on thermal management and thermal measurements of
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Three new students join NEIT Lab starting this fall 2023. Emils Jurcik is a Ph.D. student (co-advised by Prof. Samuel Graham) starting in the NEIT lab in the fall of 2023. He will be working on the thermal management of WBG power electronics and thermal measurements of solid-state devices. Anagh Dave is a master’s student
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Dr. Damena Agonafer was invited as a keynote speaker to the MicroFIP conference in Chicago. His talk titled – ‘Two-phase cooling for high heat flux applications’ included discussion on some of the state-of-the-art two phase thermal management systems and their challenges, NEIT lab evaporator technology, and the future work and operational challenges in implementing these
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