All-Micromachined Joule-Thomson Cold Stage

Lerou, P.P.P.M. and Venhorst, G.C.F. and Veenstra, T.T. and Jansen, H.V. and Burger, J.F. and Holland, H.J. and Brake ter, H.J.M. and Rogalla, H. (2007) All-Micromachined Joule-Thomson Cold Stage. In: 14th International Cryocooler Conference, 16-20 July 2007, Annapolis, MD, USA.

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Abstract:	A micro Joule-Thomson cold stage was designed, built and tested, as part of the micro cooling research project at the University of Twente. The cold stage consists of a stack of three glass wafers. In the top wafer, the high-pressure line is etched as a rectangular channel with supporting pillars. The high-pressure line ends in a flow restriction and an evaporator volume that crosses the center wafer into the bottom wafer. The bottom wafer contains the low-pressure line, again etched as a rectangular channel containing supporting pillars, thus forming a counter-flow heat exchanger. A design aimed at a net cooling power of 10 mW at 96 K and operating with nitrogen as the working fluid was optimized based on the minimization of entropy production. The optimum cold finger measures 28 mm x 2.2 mm x 0.8 mm (max. dimensions). It should be able to generate a net cooling power of 10 mW at 96 K at a nitrogen flow of 1 mg/s at a high pressure of 80 bar and a low pressure of 6 bar. A batch of 14 prototype coolers were made for 8 different designs, including a design of the theoretical optimum. Liquid nitrogen is collected in the evaporator, and since the low pressure is 6 bar, the temperature should be 96 K. However, due to some thermal resistance in the thermocouple attached to the cold tip, a temperature of 105 K was achieved. A net cooling power of 5 mW was measured. In the paper, the design of the coolers will be discussed along with experimental results.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Transducers Science and Technology (TST) Energy, Materials and Systems (EMS) Low Temperatures - Biomagnetism (LT)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/75542
Official URL:	http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/21650
Conference URL:	http://conferences.library.wisc.edu/icc14
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