Clemens Lasance is one of the most respected names in the field of thermal engineering. Mentor Graphics featured him in an interview on July 27th here. Principal Scientist Emeritus Lasance addressed the issue of LED thermal management in a slide share presentation that is well worth your reading. In this presentation, What is the role of the PCB in LED Thermal Management, he notes a few key nuggets:
- The main objective of thermal management is the calculation of application-specific junction temperature [if you’ve ever been on an ATS Webinar, you’ve heard Dr. Kaveh Azar emphasize the same point]
- The thermal engineers job is to find the largest thermal resistance in thermal series circuit
- An excellent chart on typical thermal conductivity values
You can see the whole presentation here:
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