Abstract: High-power electronic components generate significant amounts of heat that must be removed in the course of normal device operations. Certain types of electronic components, such as some monolithic microwave integrated circuits and LEDs, can contain materials that are difficult to effectively bond to a heat gink in order to establish a thermal interface between the two. Device assemblies can include a heat-generating electronic component in thermal communication with a metallic heat sink via a metallic thermal interface layer. The metallic thermal interface layer is disposed between the heat-generating electronic component and the metallic heat sink. The metallic thermal interface layer is formed from a composition including a plurality of metal nanoparticles that are at least partially fused together with one another.

Abstract: High-power electronic components generate significant amounts of heat that must be removed in the course of normal device operations. Certain types of electronic components, such as some monolithic microwave integrated circuits and LEDs, can contain materials that are difficult to effectively bond to a heat gink in order to establish a thermal interface between the two. Device assemblies can include a heat-generating electronic component in thermal communication with a metallic heat sink via a metallic thermal interface layer. The metallic thermal interface layer is disposed between the heat-generating electronic component and the metallic heat sink. The metallic thermal interface layer is formed from a composition including a plurality of metal nanoparticles that are at least partially fused together with one another.

Abstract: To deploy an inflatable member, such as an occupant restraint safety bag in a motor vehicle, a buffer zone is pressurized by the firing of inflation initiator to release liquid propellant into the buffer zone through ruptured frangible seals in a stationary separator disk or in a movable piston for controlled ignition. The ignited liquid propellant generates a large volume of gas that is cooled and pressurize buffered prior to inflating introduction into the safety bag.