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| coppercone2:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/the-performance-of-a-heatsink-with-a-black-surface/25/ So if you anodize the heat sink and add some black dye according to some people in that thread performance is increased by 30% or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack Could it be improved if vantablack is grown on a heat sink? I don't mean the paint. I don't think there is any paint that will improve a heat sink. I meant if you grew it with CVD. |
| T3sl4co1l:
By a fraction of a percent, maybe? And that's a heatsink in free air, open to the surroundings so radiation can escape. Tim |
| coppercone2:
is growing vantablack as simple as super polishing iron/steel, letting it rust and heating it in acetylene at reduced pressure? like ultra thin flash rust.. or like blued steel? |
| ejeffrey:
95% emissivity is pretty easily attainable. So you are pretty much limited to increasing the radiative component of heat dissipation by a few percent at most, and in the cases where radiative heat transfer is not important it wont do anything. |
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