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Interconnect efficiency is now essential and photonics can help

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As data centers move toward Earth's orbit, thermal management becomes a major challenge, forcing engineers to rethink system design in space.

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Thin films for insulating different components are causing dissipation issues in advanced chips.

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Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid

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Introduction to Thermal Characterization Parameters
15 Jan 2021
allaboutcircuits.com

In this article, we’ll discuss another group of thermal data, called thermal characterization parameters denoted by the Greek letter Psi (Ψ).

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Learn about an important thermal metric for designing the interface between an IC package and a heat sink.

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Watch the thermal measurement, junction-to-case thermal resistance, in action as we use it to calculate the thermal considerations for a given system.

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Assessing the thermal performance of an IC package becomes easier if you understand this common, but often misapplied, parameter known as theta JA.