The thermal conductance of pressed contacts which have been augmented with indium foil or Apiezon-N TM grease has been measured over the temperature range 1.6-6.0 K, with applied forces from 22 to 670 N. The sample pairs were fabricated from OFHC copper, 6061-T6 aluminium, free-machining brass and 3
Thermal conductance of pressed bimetallic contacts at liquid nitrogentemperatures
โ Scribed by Peter Kittel; Louis J. Salerno; Alan L. Spivak
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 287 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-2275
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โฆ Synopsis
The thermal conductance of one aluminum and one stainless steel pressed metal contacts has been measured near 77 K, with applied forces from 8.9 N to 267 N. Both 5052 or 5083 aluminum were used as the upper contact. The lower contact was 304L stainless steel. The thermal conductance is linear in temperature over the range of measurement and ranged from roughly 9 to 21 mW/K. There is no difference in conductance between the two aluminum alloys. Extrapolating the data to zero applied force does not result in zero thermal conductance. A possible cause of this anomalous effect is discussed.
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