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    Cui, Zhuo; Jia, Li; Wang, Zhou; Dang, Chao; Yin, Liaofei

    Applied thermal engineering, 05/2022, Volume: 208
    Journal Article

    •The UTFHP with striped super-hydrophilic wick structure was developed.•The mesh number of N = 200 and passage width of P = 1.5 mm is the best wick structure.•The UTFHP could tolerate 8 W heating load with the minimum thermal resistance of 0.26 K/W. The development of high-performance electronic devices requires high heat transfer components with small thickness and high thermal performance. This paper presented an ultra-thin flat heat pipe (UTFHP), and the total thickness and inner height is respectively 0.68 mm and 0.48 mm. The striped-channel structure was developed to withdraw the deformation of UTFHP and reduce the flow resistance. In order to improve the capillary performance of mesh wick, the oxidation treatment was finished by the thermal oxidation method. The thermal performance of UTFHPs was investigated under natural convection cooling condition. The effects of mesh structure, passage width and filling ratio on the thermal resistance and temperature distribution were analyzed. It is found that the UTFHP with mesh number of N = 200 and passage width P = 1.5 mm showed the best thermal performance under the filling ratio of φ = 57%. The minimum thermal resistance was 0.26 K/W with a maximum temperature of 74.07 °C at 8 W heating load, indicating that the proposed UTFHP was able to be a reliable candidate for the thermal management of electronic devices with high heat transfer rates.