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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDouglas Coolbaugh, Ebenezer Eshun, Terence Hook, Robert Rassel, Edmund Sprogis, Anthony Stamper, William Murphy
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A resistor with heat sink is provided. The heat sink includes a conductive path having metal or other thermal conductor having a high thermal conductivity. To avoid shorting the electrical resistor to ground with the thermal conductor, a thin layer of high thermal conductivity electrical insulator is interposed between the thermal conductor and the body of the resistor. Accordingly, a resistor can carry large amounts of current because the high conductivity thermal conductor will conduct heat away from the resistor to a heat sink. Various configurations of thermal conductors and heat sinks are provided offering good thermal conductive properties in addition to reduced parasitic capacitances and other parasitic electrical effects, which would reduce the high frequency response of the electrical resistor.
A heat sink comprising a first electrical insulator having a high thermal conductivity and configured to contact an electrically resistive pathway and an electrical conductor having a high thermal conductivity arranged in thermal contact with the first electrical insulator.
A resistor, comprising:
Athermal interface in an integrated circuit, comprising a high thermal conductivity electrical insulator film adjoining a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor.
A method of cooling a resistor, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.