Abstract
The application of microtechnology to traditional mechanical industries is limited owing to the lack of suitable micropatterning technology for durable materials including metal. In this research, a glassy carbon (GC) micromold was applied for the direct metal forming (DMF) of a microstructure on an aluminum (Al) substrate. The GC mold with microdome cavities was prepared by carbonization of a furan precursor, which was replicated from the thermal reflow photoresist master pattern. A microdome array with a diameter of 8.4 μm, a height of ~0.74 μm, and a pitch of 9.9 μm was successfully fabricated on an Al substrate by using DMF at a forming temperature of 645 °C and an applied pressure of 2 MPa. As a practical application of the proposed DMF process, the enhanced boiling heat transfer characteristics of the DMF microdome Al substrate were analyzed. The DMF microdome Al substrate showed 20.4 ± 2.6% higher critical heat flux and 34.1 ± 5.3% higher heat transfer coefficient than those of a bare Al substrate.
Highlights
Various research studies for enhancing pool boiling heat transfer using micropatterned surfaces have been conducted for the heat dissipation of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) [1,2,3,4]
We propose a direct metal forming (DMF) process using a glassy carbon (GC) mold
The GC mold was prepared by carbonization of a replicated furan precursor, and a standalone-type DMF system was designed and constructed
Summary
Various research studies for enhancing pool boiling heat transfer using micropatterned surfaces have been conducted for the heat dissipation of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) [1,2,3,4]. The micropattern structures for enhanced boiling heat transfer have been commonly fabricated using a semiconductor fabrication process (e.g., photolithography) on a silicon substrate because it is a well-established fabrication method for microstructures and is compatible with integrated circuits. To fabricate engineering-designed micropatterns on a metallic substrate, researchers have proposed direct micromachining techniques, such as focused ion beam machining [11], laser machining [12], and electrochemical discharge machining [13] for metallic substrates. These techniques are not suitable for large-area micropatterning with a high production rate, which is important for traditional heat exchange systems. For practical application of the DMF process with a GC mold, we examined the enhanced boiling heat transfer characteristics of the fabricated DMF microdome Al substrates and we compared the CHF and the heat transfer coefficient (HTC) of the microdome structure with those of a bare Al substrate
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