Patent 11933549 was granted and assigned to Carnegie Mellon University on March, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A high-performance thermal interface comprising a nanowire array disposed between a bottom metal layer and a top metal layer in which each nanowire is coated with a 3D fuzzy graphene layer. The thermal interface can be used by bonding it to the surfaces of adjoining substrates using layers of solder.