Please cite this article as: Monje, I.E., Louis, E., Molina, J.M., On critical aspects of infiltrated Al/diamond composites for thermal management: Diamond quality vs processing conditions, Composites: Part A (2014), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.compositesa.2014.08.015 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. TC is mainly governed by the Al-diamond interface characteristics, which are determined by a proper control exerted through processing conditions. Albeit a very low cost and low quality diamond is used, a high value of 667 W/mK has been measured for Al/diamond composites produced under optimized processing conditions. Values above 740 W/mK are reported for the best diamond quality explored in this work. These experimental results, which assign the control over TC mainly to the interface conductance, suggest that many of the limiting values of TC reported in literature for the different explored metal-diamond systems, need to be reconsidered by proper precise control of interface evolution.
ON CRITICAL ASPECTS OF INFILTRATED