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Team on 28 February 2008
Project calls for intelligent
micro-scale tester
Tester will be based on T3Ster, MicReD's world-leading transient test equipment for semiconductor chip package thermal characterisation.
Flomerics' MicReD subsidiary will play a major role in the recently announced European-funded Nanopack project, which aims to address thermal barriers to continued performance increases in semiconductors and power electronics by developing new technologies and materials for low thermal resistance interfaces and electrical interconnects Transistor downscaling is forcing a focus on heterogeneous integration and 3D packaging technologies to improve performance by reducing interconnect length between memory and multicore logic
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Within the Nanopack project, MicReD and Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE) will collaborate to create an intelligent micro-scale tester for thermal interface materials enabling thermal resistance measurements with at least one order of magnitude higher accuracy than is possible today.
The new tester will be based on T3Ster, MicReD's world-leading transient test equipment for semiconductor chip package thermal characterisation.
The project results will be disseminated through the organisation of yearly public Nanopack workshops in connection with the existing Therminic Workshops.
The Nanopack project is co-ordinated by Thales Research and Technology.
Other partners in the project are Robert Bosch, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (IEMN), Chalmers Tekniska Hoegskola, Electrovac, FOAB Electronik, Fraunhofer IZM, IBM Research, Fundacio Privada Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia, Berliner Nanotest und Design, Thales Avionics and Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (VTT). Request free introductory details about products from Flomerics ...
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