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- From: whit@milton.u.washington.edu (John Whitmore)
- Newsgroups: sci.materials
- Subject: Re: Insulator with good heat conductivity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.043801.21860@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 04:38:01 GMT
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- In article <7926@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> parks@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Chris Parks) writes:
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- >What is a good material (good=price + availability) which is
- >an electrical insulator and a good conductor of heat?
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- If your electricity is in superconductors, 'insulator' is a fair
- description of copper...
-
- >It will be used at temperatures as low as 4.2 Kelvin and it needs
- >to hold up to about 200 volts / mm, heat conductivity needs to
- >be comparable to copper. Does it exist?
-
- Your best bet is diamond, but you've already ruled that
- out (why, I can't imagine...). Do you honestly want comparable
- heat conductivity at 4.2K to the conductivity of copper at 4.2K?
- Thermal conductivity of Cu is about 4W/cm/K at room temperature,
- but 113W/cm/K at helium temperature. Except for diamond, your
- best bet is BeO (highly toxic, by the way!) but the only data I have
- is for higher temperatures (125 BTU-in/hr/sq. ft/F).
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- John Whitmore
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