ME DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

Friday, February 16, 2007

Time 1:00 – 2:00pm

Location 2211 GGB

Professor Kenneth E. Goodson

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Stanford University

"Thermal Phenomena in Electronic Microstructures"

Abstract:

This seminar summarizes Stanford research on microscale and nanoscale thermal phenomena in transistors, electronic materials, and microfluidic heat sinks. An electrothermal simulator for sub 30-nm transistors reveals hotspots using coupled electron-phonon transport models. Novel thermal metrology includes high temporal resolution imaging of resistance contributions in carbon nanotube arrays and sub 100-nm semiconductor and dielectric films. Novel MEMS are developed for thermal control of neural cell growth, diagnostics of microchannel boiling, and near-field infrared imaging. For cooling of 250+ W microprocessors, Stanford work on 3D microchannel cooling is the basis fro a successful Silicon Valley start up that has shipped more than 40,000 units

Bio:

Ken Goodson is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1993 and worked with the Materials Group at Daimler-Benz AG on power transistor design. He has been with Stanford since 1994, where his research group now includes fifteen students and research associates. His group has published more than one hundred archival journal papers and seven book chapters. His research has been recognized through the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award, a JSPS Visiting Professorship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, as well as Best Paper Awards at SEMI-THERM (2001), the Multilevel Interconnect Symposium (1998), and SRC TECHCON (1998). In 2001 Goodson co-founded a startup, Cooligy, which develops microfluidic cooling technology for computers and has grown to 40+ employees.