Effect of an Auxiliary Plate on Passive Heat Dissipation of Carbon

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The effect of auxiliary plate on passive heat dissipation of carbon nanotube-based materials Wei Yu, Zheng Duan, Guang Zhang, Changhong Liu, and Shoushan Fan Nano Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04933 • Publication Date (Web): 26 Feb 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on February 26, 2018

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The effect of auxiliary plate on passive heat dissipation of

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carbon nanotube-based materials

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Wei Yu, a Zheng Duan, a Guang Zhang, b Changhong Liu*a and Shoushan Fana

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Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, Beijing 100094, China

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Changhong Liu. Email: [email protected]

Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center and Department of Physics,

Energy Conversion Research Center, Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space

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ABSTRACT

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Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and other related CNT-based materials with high

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thermal conductivity can be used as promising heat dissipation materials. Meanwhile,

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the miniaturization and high functionality of portable electronics, such as laptops and

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mobile phones, are achieved at the cost of overheating the high power-density

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components. The heat removal for hot spots occurring in a relatively narrow space

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requires simple and effective cooling methods. Here, an auxiliary passive cooling

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approach by the aid of a flat plate (aluminum-magnesium alloy) is investigated to

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accommodate heat dissipation in a narrow space. The cooling efficiency can be raised

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to 43.5%. The cooling performance of several CNT-based samples are compared

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under such circumstances. Heat dissipation analyses show that when there is a nearby

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plate for cooling assistance, the heat radiation is weakened and natural convection is

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largely improved. Thus, improving heat radiation by increasing emissivity without

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reducing natural convection can effectively enhance cooling performance. Moreover,

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the decoration of an auxiliary cooling plate with sprayed CNTs can further improve

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the cooling performance of the entire setup.

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Keywords: Carbon nanotubes, Passive heat dissipation, Thermal management,

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Auxiliary cooling

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With the development of electronic integration technology and microelectronic

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packaging technology, electronic components and electronic equipment have become

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increasingly miniaturized.1-3 The heat removal of the hot spots produced by these

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power-dense components, such as CPUs or backlit LEDs, has become a key problem

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since high temperatures will reduce the reliability and the lifetime of electronic

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devices.2, 4 Consequently, it is urgent to find effective cooling approaches. Meanwhile,

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portable electronics, such as laptops, mobile phones and so on, have become more and

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more compact, which means that the cooling process occurs in a relatively small and

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narrow environment within their enclosed shell. This requires that the cooling

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modules possess great heat dissipation performance as well as a simple structure and

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light weight. Therefore, active cooling devices, such as thermoelectric cooling

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devices5, 6 and forced convective cooling pin fins,7, 8 are restricted because of their

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additional accessories. At present, the effective cooling module is the bottleneck in the

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development of electronic equipment and attracts wide concern from researchers.

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There have been many studies on improving the passive heat dissipation of objects,

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but cooling properties in enclosed or narrow spaces are rarely reported. For example,

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it has been reported that micron fins can improve heat dissipation,9, 10 and the effects

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of the height and the spacing of micron fins on cooling performance were also

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studied.11 Lee et al. demonstrated that an anodic oxide layer can enhance the heat

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dissipation property of aluminum by increasing the emissivity.12 In addition, carbon

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nanotubes (CNTs) have high thermal conductivities13-16 and a low density compared

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with normal metals (copper and aluminum)17,

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materials will have great applications in heat management. Jiang et al. found that

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carbon nanotube sheets have a high natural convection coefficient of approximately

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69 Wm-2K-1, which is twice that of aluminum foils.19 Multi-layered carbon nanotube

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films also have high heat dissipation due to large emissivity, with a cooling efficiency

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of 12.5% at a heat power of 2.4 W.20 The cooling efficiency of a CNT film-covered

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microchannel surface can reach as high as 25%.21 Furthermore, the cooling

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performance of a well-dispersed CNT suspension used as a molecular cooling fan was

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well studied by the Lin group.22, 23 However, the heat dissipation properties described

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above were measured in open space. There are few reports of cooling performance in

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a narrow closed space.

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In this work, the passive heat dissipation property was measured in a relatively

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narrow environment, and an auxiliary passive cooling method was proposed. Focus

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has always been on the heat transfer between two objects at close distances, such as

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the near-field radiative heat transfer at a sub-micrometer distance,24,

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convection heat transfer of two parallel vertical plates. This is a frequently appearing

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configuration in the air-cooling fins of mainframe computers and other electrical

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equipment, which has been studied.26-28 However, the plates considered in most of

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these studies are the same size, and little research has been done on the situation of

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millimeters apart. Here, by the aid of a nearby flat plate of aluminum-magnesium

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alloy, the cooling performance of two different sizes of plates which are millimeters

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apart was studied, and a new phenomenon was found. The heat dissipation of

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electrical heaters could be greatly enhanced. The results show that the cooling 4


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as in the

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efficiency can reach as high as 43.5%. Meanwhile, the cooling properties of several

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samples, i.e., the heaters decorated with CNT arrays, with monolayer CNT film, with

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etched CNT arrays and with sprayed CNT film, were studied with and without

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auxiliary cooling plates. Heat dissipation analyses indicate that the heat radiation is

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weakened, but the convection is effectively enhanced with the auxiliary cooling plate.

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The results here show that increasing heat radiation without reducing convection is

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the key to improve the total heat dissipation performance. Consequently, the sprayed

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CNT sample had the greatest heat dissipation enhancement of 65.9% because of its

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high emissivity and special surface structure. Moreover, decoration of the auxiliary

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cooling plate with sprayed CNTs can further increase the heat dissipation. Since

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laptops, mobile phones and other portable electronics mostly use metals, such as an

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aluminum-magnesium alloy, as an outer casing, we believe that the shells can be more

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effectively used as an auxiliary cooling plate for passive heat dissipation.

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Preparation of CNT-decorated chip samples

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(SACNTs) have attracted much attention because of their high thermal conductivity.13,

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(CVD).18, 29-31 Specifically, CNT arrays were grown on silicon wafers with acetylene

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as a precursor under 650−700°C. Most CNTs were multiwalled CNTs with a radius of

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approximately 10-20 nm. In this work, several CNT-based heat dissipation samples

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were prepared, where red copper plates (20×20×1.5 mm3) were used as their

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substrates. The copper plates were immersed in dilute hydrochloric acid to remove the

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oxide layer and rinsed with deionized water in advance.

Superaligned carbon nanotubes

SACNTs used in our experiment were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition

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Cu chip with CNT arrays

It has been reported that the CNT arrays were

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transferred from the silicon substrate to the target substrate by using ice as a binder.32

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Inspired by this, we prepared Cu chips covered with CNT arrays labeled Sample

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Arrays which used the silver paste to transfer the CNT arrays directly to the Cu

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substrate. First, the silver paste was evenly applied on the copper surface. Then, the

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CNT array was stuck to the copper by this thin layer of silver paste. It became tighter

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by heating at 100°C for 30 min. Then, silicon substrate can be easily peeled off.

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Finally, we succeeded in transferring CNT arrays onto the copper substrate. Compared

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with the ice-assisted CNT transfer, the silver paste with a high thermal conductivity

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can greatly reduce the interfacial thermal resistance between the CNTs and the copper

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plate to enhance the heat dissipation of the samples.

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Cu chip with etched CNT arrays

In order to improve the heat dissipation

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performance of the Sample Arrays, we used a laser to etch some microchannels and

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labeled it as Sample Patterned since these micron fins can increase natural

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convection9,

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approximately 250 µm and 1000 µm.

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Cu with monolayer CNT film

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. The microchannel width and the interval of the sample are

Because of the strong van der Waals force

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between carbon nanotubes, the SACNT arrays can be pulled into monolayer CNT

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films using an electric motor at a uniform speed.18, 30, 31 All the individual CNTs in the

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CNT film aligned in almost the same direction, and it has high thermal conductivity in

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this direction.33, 34 In this work, the Cu chip coated with a layer of SACNT film

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SACNT film on heat dissipation. The sample was prepared with following methods.

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After the SACNT film had been drawn, the copper chip on the lift table was placed

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under the SACNT film. Then, we adjusted the height of the lift table until the copper

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chip contacted the SACNT film. Afterwards, the extra SACNT film was cut off with

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the laser. The energy and wavelength of the cutting laser are approximately 100 W

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and 1070 nm, respectively. Finally, alcohol was sprayed on the SACNT film to create

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better cohesion between the SACNT film and copper after the alcohol evaporated.

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Cu with sprayed CNT film

In this work, the heat dissipation performance of

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the Cu chip with a sprayed CNT film denoted as Sample Sprayed was also studied.

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The CNT slurry was prepared by dispersing SACNTs in solution. Then, the slurry was

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sprayed evenly on the copper plate with a spray gun. The thickness of the coating

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layer was approximately 10 µm in this experiment. In addition, the auxiliary cooling

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plate was also sprayed in the same way in the control experiment.

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The principle of heat dissipation

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from materials to surroundings, i.e., radiation, convection and conduction. The total

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heat dissipation coefficient, Htotal (W m-2 K-1), can be expressed by the equation:

There are three methods of heat dissipation

= / −

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where Th and Ta are the temperatures (K) of the samples and ambient, respectively. A

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is the surface area (m2) of the sample. Pin is input power, and it is equal to total heat

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dissipation power P when thermal equilibrium is established in the system. The

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principle of heat dissipation is discussed below in situations with and without an

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The thermal conductivity of air is very small (kair ≈ 0.026 W m-1 K-1 at room

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temperature).20, 21, 35 In the absence of auxiliary cooling plate, the conductive heat

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dissipation with air can be ascribed to natural convection. Consequently, heat is

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dissipated mainly by radiation and natural convection. That is, = +

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where Pr and Pc are thermal radiation power (W) and natural convection power (W),

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respectively.

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Stefan−Boltzmann equation,

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The heat dissipation principle of the system with an auxiliary cooling plate is

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slightly different from the above. First, the conductive heat transfer between the

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samples and the plate can be determined. Since the distance between the samples and

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the plate is very close (0~15 mm), the heat conduction between the two cannot be

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negligible. Therefore, the heat conduction power of the entire system, Pd, can be

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described as

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where Th, Tplate are the temperatures of the samples and the plate, respectively. d is the

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distance between the samples and the plate. The thermal radiation between the

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samples and the plate can be simplified as a problem of heat radiation between two

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planes, and the thermal radiative power (W), Ps-p, can be calculated by the equation, 36 8


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+ +,-2 / / .+ -+ .+ 0+,2 .2-2

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where ε1 and A1 are the surface emissivity and upper surface area of the sample,

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respectively. ε2 and A2 are emissivity and area of downward surface of the plate,

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respectively. X1,2 is the radiation view factor. Obviously, when A2 is much larger than

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A1 and X1,2 is almost equal to 1, equation (5) can be simplified as '!( = 3 3 − (4 &

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ε2 has little effect on heat radiation in equation (6). In addition, the heat radiation

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power between the plate and the environment, Pp-air, may be determined by the

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equation

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It is difficult to calculate Pp-air by this equation because the plate is not isothermal.

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However, a qualitative conclusion can be easily reached according equation (7), that

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is, Pp-air increases with increasing ε2. Normally, the metal surface including the bare

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Al plate has a low emissivity (~0.1).20, 37 Finally, the total heat dissipation power

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(W) of the sample can be described as

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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the thermal dissipation measurement setup without (a) and with (b)

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an auxiliary cooling plate.

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As is shown in Fig. 1a, the thermal

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The thermal dissipation measurement setup

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dissipation measurement setup reported in our previous works20 contains a ceramic

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heater (20×20×1.5 mm3), thermal insulators and several different temperature

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monitors. Specifically, the commercial heater was a painted electrical resistor

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encapsulated in the alumina ceramics. Its maximum heating power is approximately

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200 W with the highest temperature of 900 K. In this work, the power of the heater

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was controlled by a KEITHLEY 2410 electric source meter. The heat insulator

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consists of carbon fiber felt (80×80×3 mm3, k ≈ 0.06 W m-1 K-1 at room temperature)

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and a wood block (80×80×20 mm3) joined together by heat-resistant tape. The tested

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samples were combined with the heater using thermal grease in order to reduce the

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interfacial thermal resistance and make almost all of the heat flow upwards.

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Moreover, there is a k-type thermocouple inlaid in the upper side of the heater to

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measure the heater temperatures. Another thermocouple was attached on the upper

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surface of the samples by high-purity silver paste. This thermocouple, combined with 10


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an infrared (IR) thermometer, can determine the emissivity of the samples.20,

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Specifically, the IR thermometer was used to detect surface temperatures of the

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samples in real time. By adjusting the emissivity setting of the IR thermometer until

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the IR thermometer reading was the same as the thermocouple, the emissivity setting

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at that time was the surface emissivity of the samples. The temperature range and

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spectral range of the IR thermometer (OPTRIS LS) are 240-1170 K and 8–14 µm,

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respectively. In addition, the real-time temperatures measured by the k-type

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thermocouple can be recorded by an 8-channel data collector (ART DAM 3039F)

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with a precision of 0.1 K connected to the computer by an RS-485 bus.

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The entire thermal device described above was placed on a z-axis lift table with

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accuracy of 0.01 mm. The auxiliary cooling plate was placed over it by supporting it

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on two wood blocks (200×100×20 mm3), as shown in Fig. 1b. Specifically, the tested

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auxiliary

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(96%Al-2.2~2.8%Mg-0.4%Fe-0.25%Si) with dimensions of 200×200×2 mm3. This

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kind of aluminum plate was selected in our experiment because most electronics

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currently use it as their shells. Additionally, the thermocouple and IR thermometer

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were applied to measure the emissivity of the plate. To avoid the effects of airflow, the

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cooling

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Fig. 2. The increasing temperature curves of the bare Cu chip with and without an auxiliary

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cooling plate at the power of 2 W.

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In our experiment, the heat

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The influence of auxiliary plate on heat dissipation

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dissipation properties of copper with and without an auxiliary cooling plate were both

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measured. The temperature versus time curves are shown in Fig. 2. The distance d

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between the plate and the copper chip was 0.5 mm, and the heating power was

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approximately 2 W. To ensure that the entire system reached thermal equilibrium, the

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heating process is maintained for approximately 40 minutes. The equilibrium

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temperature of the heater with the auxiliary plate is significantly lower than that

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without the plate, which are 82.0°C and 126.7°C, respectively. This indicates that the

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heat dissipation properties of the entire device have been greatly improved with the

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aid of the plate. To quantitatively describe the effect of the auxiliary plate, the cooling

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efficiency η is introduced, which is defined as η= (∆T/∆Ta) × 100%,

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the difference between the equilibrium temperatures with and without the plate. ∆Ta is

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the temperature difference between the ambient and bare Cu without the plate. The

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calculated cooling efficiency is 43.5%. It is significantly larger than that of the 12


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reported level for the disordered SWCNT composite39 and multilayer CNT films20,

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which are approximately 5.4% and 12.5%, respectively. Therefore, the auxiliary

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cooling plate makes a leap of the heat dissipation property of the system. Laptops and

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other electronics currently on the market mostly use aluminum alloy casings to protect

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their bodies. Therefore, the metal shell may have a great influence on the heat

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dissipation of devices inside.

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Fig. 3. (a) The cooling efficiencies and (b) the percentages of heat radiative power, natural

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convective power and heat conductive power of bare Cu with an auxiliary cooling plate at

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different distances between the bare Cu and Al plate.

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The effect of the distance 7 on heat dissipation

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auxiliary plate had a significant effect on heat dissipation, the relationship between

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heat dissipation and d (distance between the bare Cu and Al plate) at the range of

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0~15 mm was explored. The changes of cooling efficiency with d are shown in Fig.

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efficiency at d of 3 mm is almost the same as the values without an auxiliary plate. In

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other words, when d is greater than 3 mm, the plate does not have positive effect on

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the heat removal, and the cooling efficiency continues to decline until d increases to 6 13


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mm to reach the minimum. After that, the cooling efficiency gradually approaches

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those without an auxiliary plate. This phenomenon provides a guide for the

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installation of shells in electronic devices such as laptops and mobile phones. That is,

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when the distance between the shell and the heat source such as a CPU is in a certain

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range, the metal shell can play a cooling effect; otherwise, it will have no cooling

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effect or can even hinder heat dissipation. Furthermore, we compared the cases of

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CNT buckypaper in contact and not in contact with the auxiliary plate and found that

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an auxiliary plate with a small d has a great effect on heat dissipation. Detailed results

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are shown in the Supporting Information.

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Furthermore, three methods of heat dissipation power can be calculated by

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equations (4), (6) and (8). Then, their proportions, Pr/P, Pd/P and Pc/P, can be easily

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determined, which are shown in Fig. 3b. The distance has little effect on radiative heat

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dissipation, and conductive heat dissipation decreases with increasing d, which is

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consistent with equation (5). More importantly, natural convection plays a dominant

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role in the heat dissipation.

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The original phenomenon described above may be explained by the following. In

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open space, for a bare Cu plate, natural convection is the main way to dissipate heat

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because heat radiation and thermal conduction can be ignored due to the low

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emissivity (ε～0.02) and low thermal conductivity of air, respectively. However,

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when there is an auxiliary plate, heat dissipated by thermal conduction is inversely

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proportional to distance d. Therefore, it cannot be neglected with a small d, and we

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Supporting Information Fig. S2a. This weakens natural convection, according to

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equation S1, because the temperature difference between the auxiliary plate and heat

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source is reduced. Nevertheless, heat dissipation by conduction is far greater than the

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decrease in convection, so the cooling effect is significantly improved compared with

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those in open space. As d gets larger, the cooling effect is reduced because of the

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decrease of thermal conduction, and the cooling efficiency might be negative when

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the heat dissipated by conduction is smaller than the reduction in convection. When d

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continues to increase, convection improves due to the reduction of TAl, and the total

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cooling performance improves again. It can be easily concluded that η with a large

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enough distance is close to the value in open space. That is why η decreases first and

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then increases with increasing d and has a minimum value, ηmin, just as shown in Fig.

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3a. In general, the change of heat dissipation with an auxiliary plate is caused by the

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competition of air conduction and convection. In addition, the calculated trend of heat

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cooling performance is consistent with Fig. 3a. The detailed calculation is in the

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Supporting Information.

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Fig. 4. (a) The increasing temperature curves of bare Cu and Sample Arrays in the cases with (d

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=1 mm) and without an auxiliary cooling plate. (b) The total heat dissipation coefficients of bare

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The radiative and convective heat dissipation powers of Sample Patterned and Sprayed in the

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cases with and without an auxiliary cooling plate.

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Different heat dissipation in open space and enclosed space

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between the plate and the samples is very small, the heat removal occurs in the

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relatively narrow space. To compare the sample difference in cooling properties in an

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open space and a narrow space, the equilibrium temperatures of bare Cu and Sample

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Arrays were measured in the cases with and without auxiliary plates. The increasing

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temperature curves are shown in Fig. 4a. In the absence of the auxiliary cooling plate,

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the cooling effect of Sample Arrays is obviously better than bare Cu, and the

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corresponding equilibrium temperatures are 119.2°C and 130.3°C, respectively. This

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phenomenon is mainly due to the CNT arrays having higher radiative heat dissipation

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with the higher emissivity of 0.95. When there is an auxiliary plate at the distance of 1

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mm, the equilibrium temperatures of Sample Arrays and bare Cu were 102.0°C,

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100.0°C, respectively. It means that the heat dissipation properties of the two are

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almost the same or even the heat dissipation performance of Sample Arrays is slightly

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worse than bare Cu. This is different from the phenomenon without an auxiliary plate,

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which may indicate that there is something new worth studying in the relatively

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enclosed space compared with those in an open space.

Since the distance

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Furthermore, the cooling performance of Sample Monolayer, Sample Patterned

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and Sample Sprayed were also measured and are shown in Fig. 4b. The cooling effect

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of all samples with the help of the auxiliary plate has greatly improved. The total heat

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that of the corresponding bare Cu because the monolayer CNT film with a very high

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transparency17, 40 has little effect on radiative heat dissipation. However, convective

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has a better cooling performance in open space, but the total heat dissipation

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coefficient (Htotal) of the Sample Sprayed is larger in the narrow space. To explain this

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phenomenon, the cooling powers by the three methods of heat dissipation were

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calculated and are shown in Fig. 4c. The conductive powers of two samples with the

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auxiliary plate is almost the same, which is consistent with equation (5). It is worth

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noting that the conductive power is included in the convective power for an easy

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comparison with the samples without the auxiliary plate. The radiative cooling part of

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the two samples is weakened, but the convection heat dissipation is enhanced

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effectively in the narrow space. More importantly, the enhancement of convection is

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much larger than the reduction of heat radiation, so the total cooling property can be

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improved with the help of the auxiliary cooling plate. Furthermore, although Sample

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Patterned has a higher emissivity (εpatterned=0.9) than Sample Sprayed (εsprayed=0.85),

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and Sample Sprayed has a much higher natural convective power than Sample

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Patterned. Therefore, Sample Sprayed has a greater cooling performance, and the

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enhancement of its total heat dissipation coefficient is approximately 65.9%. It can be

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concluded that it is key to improve the heat dissipation performance by effectively

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Sprayed can be explained in terms of air molecule motion. For Sample Arrays, the

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closely packed SACNT arrays have an average diameter of 15 nm and a height of 0.3

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mm, which are shown in Fig. S3a. This kind of geometry may trap the ambient gases

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and prevent heat exchange easily with the arrays because of the spatial confinement

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effect,41, 42 as shown in Fig. S3d. However, from Fig. S3c, Sample Sprayed with a thin

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layer (10 µm) of a fluffy CNT film does not have this kind of spatial confinement and

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has a better convective performance.

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Fig. 5. The increasing temperature curves of bare Cu with a bare auxiliary plate and an auxiliary

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plate sprayed with a CNT film at d=1 mm. Inset: photograph of Al plate before (left) and after (right)

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spraying with the CNT film.

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The cooling performance of auxiliary plate sprayed with CNT film

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auxiliary cooling plate was further sprayed with the CNT slurry to improve the heat

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dissipation. The emissivity of auxiliary plate with CNT film can reach as high as 0.85.

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As shown in Fig. 5, when the upper surface of the auxiliary plate is sprayed with the

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CNT film, the equilibrium temperature of Cu is 97°C, which is lower than that with

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the bare Al plate (100°C). This further improvement can be reasonably ascribed to the

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enhancement of radiation heat dissipation of the plate. From that, we can infer that 18


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both the Cu chip and auxiliary plate sprayed with the CNT film can exhibit superior

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heat dissipation performance.

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In summary, we have investigated the heat dissipation properties of several

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CNT-based materials in the narrow closed space, which is confined using an auxiliary

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plate. Our results indicate that these CNT materials have a very different heat

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dissipation performance than those in the open space. We find that the auxiliary plate

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can play diverse roles in heat dissipation. The auxiliary cooling plate can get the

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cooling efficiency of bare Cu as high as 43.5%. Heat dissipation analyses indicate that

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heat dissipates mainly by natural convection. The auxiliary cooling plate weakens the

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radiative power but improves the natural convection part of the CNT-decorated chip.

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Consequently, it can be concluded that the heat dissipation performance can be

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improved by increasing the heat radiation without weakening the convection. The

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sprayed CNT film shows an outstanding cooling performance in this study owing to

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its special surface structure and high emissivity of 0.85. Moreover, the auxiliary plate

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sprayed by a CNT film can further improve the cooling property of the system. This

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work suggests that auxiliary passive cooling has a high value for research and

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applications.

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Supporting Information

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1. Comparison of buckypaper in contact and not in contact with the auxiliary plate

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2. An analysis of different cooling performances at varied d

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3. Figures for the explanation of the spatial confinement effect

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Acknowledgements

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (51572146,

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51702357).

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Corresponding Author

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*E-mail: [email protected]

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Notes

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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