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Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation on the Influence of Heat Spreader Topography and Thermal Interface Material Properties on Thermal Performance of High-Power Computing (HPC) Semiconductor Packaging

2025· article· W4416403931 on OpenAlexaff
Alexis Jacques-Fortin, Stéphanie Allard, Kenneth C. Marston

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldMaterials Science
TopicThermal properties of materials
Canadian institutionsIBM (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThermal greaseThermalIntegrated circuit packagingInterface (matter)Electronic packagingReliability (semiconductor)Thermal resistanceCharacterization (materials science)SemiconductorSemiconductor device

Abstract

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In first-level semiconductor packaging, heat extraction from the semiconductor is crucial to ensure good performance of the package within the system. In a semiconductor assembly manufacturing environment, package thermal performance can be assured by monitoring attributes such as the incoming properties and specifications of the thermal interface material and heat spreaders, along with post-module assembly inspections of the thermal interface material integrity by CSAM (Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy) and module warpage. In this study, a controlled experiment on heat spreader topography and thermal interface material properties was conducted that shows their impacts to the outgoing quality of the thermal interface in a semiconductor package. Thermal performance measurements were conducted that demonstrated the impact using specially designed thermal test vehicle modules. Characterization data reveals the influence of incoming material specifications, in conjunction with physical package attributes, on the thermal performance and reliability of high-power computing applications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.047
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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