Public Title Thermal and/or Electrical Contact Conduction Enhancer Division Lead Inventor Cola, Baratunde Public Description In the electronics industry, a common issue is thermal transfer away from heat producing and surrounding components. Continuous contact between the components is not physically possible resulting in an air gap, which is a very poor conductor. Current methods to compensate for these gaps include thermal greases and phase changing materials which have limitations on their efficiency. Inventors at Purdue University have developed a product which provides greater conduction at the interface of two surfaces than other removable products. The technology affords this advantage by creating increased contact area at the interface through billions of surface contact sites and in effect reduces the thermal and electrical resistance between the two surfaces. The product is versatile enough to be used alone or with existing commercial greases and wax-based phase change materials. Patent Status Public References Key Words Manager Eric Lynch Email eslynch@prf.org Telephone 765-588-3477 Fax 765-463-3486   Back to List