Multifunctional Material Structures Based on Laser-Etched Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Aline Emplit,
Ester Tooten,
Victor Xhurdebise,
Isabelle Huynen
Affiliations
Aline Emplit
Information and Communications Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Ester Tooten
Information and Communications Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Victor Xhurdebise
Information and Communications Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Isabelle Huynen
Information and Communications Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université Catholique de Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
High-power electronics in the transportation and aerospace sectors need size and weight reduction. Multifunctional and multistructured materials are currently being developed to couple electromagnetic (EM) and thermal properties, i.e., shielding against electromagnetic impulsions, and thermal management across the thermal interface material (TIM). In this work, we investigate laser-machined patterned carbon nanotube (CNT) micro-brushes as an alternative to metallic structures for driving simultaneously EM and heat propagation. The thermal and electromagnetic response of the CNT array is expected to be sensitive to the micro-structured pattern etched in the CNT brush.
