Systems and methods for cooling an electronic device via interface of a heat-transfer conduit of the electronic device to a cold plate assembly are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes an electronic device including one or more electronic components. Further, the electronic device includes a heat-transfer conduit including a first end and a second end. The first end of the heat-transfer conduit is positioned to receive heat from the electronic component(s). The heat-transfer conduit is configured to conduct heat from the first end to the second end. Further, the system includes a cold plate assembly including a cold plate and a mechanism configured to permit movement of the cold plate. At the first position, the cold plate may contact the second end for receipt of heat from the heat-transfer conduit at the second end. At the second position, the cold plate is apart from the second end.

An immersion heat dissipation structure is provided. The immersion heat dissipation structure includes a porous metal heat dissipation material, an integrated heat spreader, and a thermal interface material. The porous metal heat dissipation material has a porosity greater than 8%. The porous metal heat dissipation material and the integrated heat spreader have the thermal interface material arranged therebetween so that a thermal connection is formed therebetween. A super-wetting layer is formed on a connection surface between the porous metal heat dissipation material and the thermal interface material, and the super-wetting layer has a wetting angle of less than 10 degrees to water. Alternatively, a super-hydrophobic layer is formed on the connection surface between the porous metal heat dissipation material and the thermal interface material, and the super-hydrophobic layer has a wetting angle of greater than 120 degrees to water.

Some embodiments include a thermal management system for a nanosecond pulser. In some embodiments, the thermal management system may include a switch cold plates coupled with switches, a core cold plate coupled with one or more transformers, resistor cold plates coupled with resistors, or tubing coupled with the switch cold plates, the core cold plates, and the resistor cold plates. The thermal management system may include a heat exchanger coupled with the resistor cold plates, the core cold plate, the switch cold plate, and the tubing. The heat exchanger may also be coupled with a facility fluid supply.

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for thermal dissipation on or from an electronic device are described. An apparatus may have a printed circuit board (PCB) having an edge connector. At least one integrated circuit device may be disposed on a surface of the PCB. A tubular heat spreader may be disposed along an edge of the PCB opposite the edge connector.

An actuator usable in a cooling system is described. The actuator includes an anchored region and a cantilevered arm. The cantilevered arm extends outward from the anchored region. The cantilevered arm includes a step region, an extension region and an outer region. The step region extends outward from the anchored region and has a step thickness. The extension region extends outward from the step region and has an extension thickness less than the step thickness. The outer region extends outward from the extension region and has an outer thickness greater than the extension thickness.

A flexible circuit board includes a flexible substrate, an electronic component and a heat spreader. The electronic component and the heat spreader are disposed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the flexible substrate, respectively. The heat spreader includes a copper layer which contains more than or equal to 50% copper grains by volume with (1,0,0) crystallographic orientation.

An electronic device may include a circuit board, a heat generating component carried by the circuit board, a heat transfer rail extending along an edge of circuit board and coupled to the heat generating component, a housing covering the circuit board, and a heat transfer clamp between the heat transfer rail and the housing. The heat transfer clamp includes a flexible, heat conductive layer having a first portion in thermal contact with the heat transfer rail and a second portion in thermal contact with the housing. The first and second portions are thermally coupled, and a clamp and a compressible layer thereon extends between the first and second portions of the flexible, heat conductive layer.

The invention relates to a heatsink for transferring heat from one or more electrical devices to a heat transfer medium. The heatsink includes a plurality of fins arranged on a frontside of the heatsink. The plurality of fins includes a first group of fins extending in a first planar direction and a second group of fins extending in a second planar direction angled in relation to the first planar direction. For example, the first group of fins may extend from the bottom to the top of the heatsink, while the second group of fins may extend from the first group of fins to the sides of the heatsink. In this way, the sides of the heatsink can be used as air outlets and the airflow through the heatsink can be increased.

The disclosure relates to a housing comprising at least one composite wall comprising woven or braided carbon fibers covered with a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin, an electronic card carrying electronic components, and a heat transfer device having at least one portion facing an electronic component to be cooled of the electronic card, said heat transfer device being inserted inside the composite wall, the heat transfer device comprising at least one cooling conduit containing a cooling fluid.

A rack cooling system includes a primary cooling condenser and a secondary cooling condenser. The primary cooling condenser is positioned above servers of a server rack and the secondary cooling condenser is position above the primary cooling condenser. Each of the severs, the primary cooling condenser, and the secondary cooling condenser is connected to a liquid manifold via one of a plurality of liquid ports on the liquid manifold, and to the vapor manifold via one of a plurality of vapor ports on the vapor manifold. A cooling capacity of the rack cooling system can be extended by switching on a vapor flow between the secondary cooling condenser and the primary cooling condenser using a first valve on the vapor manifold. Further, a second valve on a primary cooling loop can be used to control cooling fluid flowing into the secondary cooling condenser after the first valve is trigged open.