Component-Level Thermal Management Track

PROF. AVRAM BAR-COHEN BEST PAPERBEST PAPER – RUNNER UP
Comparison between Direct Winding Heat Exchanger and Slot-liner Confined Evaporative Cooling of Electric MotorLayered Unsupervised Learning-based Identification and Quantification of Voids in Package Thermal Interface Materials 
Amitav Tikadar, Yogendra Joshi, Satish Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) Rahul Lall, Kamal Sikka, Isabel De Sousa (IBM) 

SYSTEM-LEVEL Thermal Management Track

PROF. AVRAM BAR-COHEN BEST PAPERBEST PAPER – RUNNER UP
Two-phase thermofluidic modeling and validation of a multi-zone microchannel evaporator Numerical evaluation of bimetallic self-adaptive fins acting as flow disturbing elements inside a microchannel 
Qianying Wu (Nokia Bell Labs and Stanford University), Todd Salamon (Nokia Bell Labs) Montse Vilarrubi (Universitat de Lleida, Universal Smart Cooling S.L.), Desideri Regany, Francesc X Majos, Manel Ibanez, Joan Ignasi Rosell, Josep Illa, Ferran Badia (Universitat de Lleida), Amrid Amnache, Etienne Leveille, Rajesh Pandiyan (Universite de Sherbrooke), Luc G Frechette (Universite de Sherbrooke, Universal Smart Cooling S.L.), Jerome Barrau (Universitat de Lleida, Universal Smart Cooling S.L.) 

MECHANICS & RELIABILITY Track

PROF. AVRAM BAR-COHEN BEST PAPERBEST PAPER – RUNNER UP
Novel Test Device for Non-destructive Experimental Characterization of Void Evolution in Microscale Solder Joints subjected to Thermal Aging Impact of FEOL cross-heating on the thermal performance of advanced BEOL 
Sudarshan Prasanna Prasad, Chetan Jois, Ganesh Subbarayan (Purdue University) Melina Lofrano, Bjorn Vermeersch, Herman Oprins, Seongho Park, Zsolt Tokei (Imec) 

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES & FUNDAMENTALS TRACK

PROF. AVRAM BAR-COHEN BEST PAPERBEST PAPER – RUNNER UP
Chip-level Thermal Simulation for a Multicore Processor Using a Multi-Block Model Enabled by Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Pulsating Heat Pipe Fin Plates for Enhancing Natural and Forced Convection Cooling of Electronics: Experimental Campaign 
Lin Jiang, Anthony Dowling, Yu Liu, Ming- Cheng Cheng (Department of Electrical And Computer Engineering Clarkson University) Gautier Rouaze, Jackson Marcinichen, John Thome (JJ Cooling Innovation SARL), Kangnin Xiong, Winston Zhang (Novark Technologies)