Fluid cooled encapsulated microelectronic package
View Patent ↗An encapsulated microelectronic package includes a fluid conducting cooling tube directly coupled to one or more semiconductor chips, with the encapsulant being molded over the semiconductor chips and portions of the cooling tube in proximity to the semiconductor chips. The encapsulant immobilizes the cooling tube with respect to the semiconductor chips, and the cooling tube and encapsulant are designed to minimize differences in their coefficients of thermal expansion relative to the semiconductor chips.
1. A microelectronic package, comprising:
a semiconductor chip;
a fluid-carrying cooling tube disposed in proximity to a first surface of said first semiconductor chip, said cooling tube being formed of thermally and electrically conductive material;
a thermally and electrically conductive bonding material disposed between said cooling tube and the first surface of said semiconductor chip, thermally and electrically bonding said cooling tube to said first surface; and
a plastic encapsulant molded over said semiconductor chip and portions of said cooling tube in proximity to said chip,
wherein said first surface of said first semiconductor chip is an active surface, said microelectronic package includes a substrate on which a second active surface of said first semiconductor chip is mounted, and said plastic encapsulant is molded over portions of said substrate in proximity to said semiconductor chip, and
wherein said cooling tube extends through an opening found in said substrate and is thermally and electrically coupled to said substrate.
2. The microelectronic package of claim 1 , wherein said cooling tube is copper and said thermally conductive bonding material is indium solder.
3. The microelectronic package of claim 1 , wherein said cooling tube is utilized as an electrical terminal of said first semiconductor chip.
4. The microelectronic package of claim 1 , wherein said cooling tube has an inlet portion extending through a first opening in said substrate and an outlet portion extend through a second opening is said substrate.