Integrated heat spreader
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsTodd Salamon, Nagesh Basavanhally, Flavio Pardo
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Abstract
A device, and method of operating the device, are disclosed. The device includes: a heat spreader having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the heat spreader including at least one oscillating heat pipe arranged between the first side and the second side, at least one of the at least one oscillating heat pipe including a plurality of interconnected channels including a working fluid; at least one optoelectronic component coupled to the first side of the heat spreader; and at least one thermoelectric cooler, wherein a cold side of the at least one thermoelectric cooler is coupled to the second side of the heat spreader. The heat spreader may include one or more heat exchange features.
Claims16
A device, comprising:
- a heat spreader having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the heat spreader comprising at least one oscillating heat pipe arranged between the first side and the second side, at least one of the at least one oscillating heat pipe comprising a plurality of interconnected channels comprising a working fluid, the interconnected channels comprising at least one valve comprising a gradual change of a cross sectional diameter of one or more of the plurality of channels and a wick extending lengthwise in the at least one valve through the gradual change of cross sectional diameter in a direction of flow of the working fluid;
- at least one optoelectronic component coupled to the first side of the heat spreader;
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- at least one thermoelectric cooler, wherein a cold side of the at least one thermoelectric cooler is coupled to the second side of the heat spreader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.