With continuous advances in electronics in nearly every field, thermal management such as these thermal pads being replaced on a laptop processor, is more critical than ever.
Thermal Interface Materials
Today’s high-end, ever-faster electronic technologies -- semiconductors, transfer chips, and other discrete components -- need to conduct away the heat that they generate as efficiently as possible to maintain temperatures within safe operating limits. Growing technical demands make the selection and use of appropriate Thermal Interface Materials (TIMs) critically important in the heat dissipation process.
To effectively transfer heat, a good thermal contact is needed between two components. TIMs are materials sandwiched between the two, often uneven, surfaces to improve the thermal coupling between them. Designed to fill in air gaps and microscopic irregularities, TIMs significantly lower thermal resistance and cool better.
Many flexible thermal management materials are designed to simplify assembly. Unlike other types of heat dissipation techniques, they can be used without grease. Some are able to be used permanently without drying out, providing long-lasting heat conduction, saving time and money.
Web Seal can deliver high-performance solutions in nearly every heat transfer application -- from transportation and defense, communications and textiles to food processing, chemical processing, and medical instrumentation -- with a range of TIM sealing components, including:
- Sil-Pads®, thermal gap pads, gap fillers
- Thermally conductive films
- Conductive fabrics, woven and non-woven
- EMI shielding textiles bonded to foams
- Conductive adhesive tapes
- Copper, aluminum and other metalized mesh, foils, film and tapes
- Specialty materials such as silicone-free PCM (phase change materials) or thermoplastic polyurethane
Web Seal fabricates custom die-cut components to accommodate any shapes or geometries the application demands, using custom thermal management materials manufactured by Bergquist®, Chomerics, Kerafol®, and 3M.
We offer a range of features to meet your specific product needs, including high tensile strength materials, self-adhesion qualities, and the ability to add pressure-sensitive adhesives, which aid in ease of assembly.