ISSN Online: 2377-424X
ISBN Print: 0-89116-909-1
International Heat Transfer Conference 9
APPROXIMATE THERMAL PACKAGING LIMIT FOR HYBRID SUPERCONDUCTOR-SEMICONDUCTOR ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Resumo
The discovery of superconductivity above 90 K opens up the possibility of powerful hybrid electronic circuits. Superconductive electronic devices exhibit effects of temperature not present in semiconductors. Heat dissipation in transistors causes temperature fields in hybrid chips that affect the performance of the superconductive elements, the Josephson junctions. The minimum distance between semiconductor and superconductor elements results in a thermal packaging limit for hybrid chips. This work presents a novel methodology to determine this limit, based on the basic thermal phenomena in superconductive elements. An approximate one-dimensional thermal analysis of a generic hybrid chip design determines the temperature field and the minimum distance.