The design, fabrication and characterization of a silicon microheater for an integrated MEMS gas preconcentrator Junghoon Yeom, Christopher R Field, Byunghoon Bae et al. Numerical modeling of three-dimensional compressible gas flow in microchannnels V Jain and C X Lin Modeling of liquid-gas meniscus for textured surfaces: effects of curvature and local slip length Anvesh Gaddam, Mayank Garg, Amit Agrawal et al. Experimental observations and lattice Boltzmann method study of the electroviscous effect for liquid flow G H Tang, Zhuo Li, Y L He et al. Stokes flow through a rectangular array of circular cylinders C Y Wang Low Reynolds number flow across an array of cylindrical microposts in a microchannel and figure-of-merit analysis of micropost-filled microreactors AbstractMicropost-filled reactors are commonly found in many micro-total analysis system applications because of their large surface area for the surrounding volume. Design rules for micropost-filled reactors are presented here to optimize the performance of a micro-preconcentrator, which is a component of a micro-gas chromatography system. A key figure of merit for the performance of the micropost-filled preconcentrator is to minimize the pressure drop while maximizing the surface-area-to-volume ratio for a given overall channel geometry. Several independent models from the literature are used to predict the flow resistance across the micropost-filled channels for low Reynolds number flows. The pressure drop can be expressed solely as a function of a couple of design parameters: β = a/s, the ratio of the radius of each post to the half-spacing between two adjacent posts, and N, the number of microposts in a row. Pressure drop measurements are performed to experimentally corroborate the flow resistance models and the optimization scheme using the figure of merit. As the number of microposts for a given β increases in a given channel size, a greater surface-area-to-volume ratio will result for a fixed pressure drop. Therefore, increasing the arrays of posts with smaller diameters and spacing will optimize the microreactor for larger surface area for a given flow resistance, at least until Knudsen flow begins to dominate.

This paper reports the first integration of laser-etched polycrystalline diamond microchannels with template-fabricated microporous copper for extreme convective boiling in a composite heat sink for power electronics and energy conversion. Diamond offers the highest thermal conductivity near room temperature, and enables aggressive heat spreading along triangular channel walls with 1:1 aspect ratio. Conformally coated porous copper with thickness 25 µm and 5 µm pore size optimizes fluid and heat transport for convective boiling within the diamond channels. Data reported here include 1280 W cm −2 of heat removal from 0.7 cm 2 surface area with temperature rise beyond fluid saturation less than 21 K, corresponding to 6.3 × 10 5 W m −2 K −1 . This heat sink has the potential to dissipate much larger localized heat loads with small temperature nonuniformity (5 kW cm −2 over 200 µm × 200 µm with <3 K temperature difference). A microfluidic manifold assures uniform distribution of liquid over the heat sink surface with negligible pumping power requirements (e.g., <1.4 × 10 −4 of the thermal power dissipated). This breakthrough integration of functional materials and the resulting experimental data set a very high bar for microfluidic heat removal.

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