Author Archive for Seri Lee

Calculating spreading resistance in heat sinks

January 1st, 1998

Accident? Consider the scenario where a designer wishes to incorporate a newly developed device into a system and soon learns that a heat sink is needed to cool the device. The designer finds a rather…read more

How to select a heat sink

June 1st, 1995

With the increase in heat dissipation from microelectronics devices and thereduction in overall form factors, thermal management becomes a more a moreimportant element of electronic product design. Both the performance reliability and life expectancy of…read more