DARPA’s Intra/Interchip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool) Program

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pursuing research working toward a new paradigm of embedded cooling for thermal management of microelectronic devices. This work was initiated in the Near Junction Thermal Transport (NJTT) thrust, which is the transitional effort to an embedded cooling paradigm, building on the advanced remote cooling developed in the Thermal Management Technologies (TMT) program. The full implementation of embedded cooling is being pursued in the two efforts of the Intra/Interchip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool) program: ICECool Fundamentals and ICECool Applications.