Frequently Asked Questions
We have been shipping products to customers for over 2 years with repeat orders. Our capacity today will meet your needs. Our new Atlanta facility is ramping now to a capacity of 20 football fields’ of material per year.
Yes. Our innovative process flow and abundantly available and sustainable raw material stack can significantly reduce supply chain risk in this challenging environment. Talk to your Carbice contact to discuss flexible inventory solutions and lead time management options for high volume products.
Yes, Carbice has both ISO9001:2015 and AS9100D certifications. Our Quality Management System is certified to meet the highest standards in the industry and will exceed your expectations.
Yes, we supply the Primes, established Aerospace and Defense companies, as well as several innovative new entrants. We do not disclose our customer relationships due to confidentiality agreements.
No, there are no restrictions on Carbice technology or products.
Carbice® Ice Pad™ is where most customers start, because it meets the needs of the widest range of applications. Space Pad™ is geared towards space and low-outgassing applications.
Once you have chosen the right type of Carbice Pad, our product selector allows you to consider all the real factors that affect your thermal interface performance. Carbice Lab lets you reach the right solution with unprecedented speed. See product pages for more details.
Vertically aligned Carbice Nanotubes act as stress reliever at the interface: they attach, slide, and move like springs at the nanoscale. As a result, the Carbice Pad interface will not delaminate due to stress – no matter how large the CTE mismatch in the interface.
We hear you. Grease and traditional pads only work in a small torque or force window. That is not the case with Carbice Pads. With our material, you are free to choose the torque or force that works best for your needs. The tensile strength of Carbice Nanotubes is 10 times that of steel. In our product, each individual Carbice Nanotube is covalently anchored to the aluminum core. They will bend to meet the curvature and roughness of your interface exactly, but they will never break.
No. Greases and PCMs migrate out of fastened interfaces. Graphite and silicone pads can release particles from their edges due to tear and compression set. In contrast, when a Carbice Pad is fastened in an interface, it stays in place and generates zero FOD.
Yes. Carbice Pads are the most robust thermal interface materials (TIMs) in the world.
Carbice Pads can be used for electrical grounding with our metal coatings. Carbice Pads can be used in applications where you would typically use a dielectric grease or pad, because you are concerned about migration or FODs causing electrical shorts. See the question about FOD above.
Yes, the first Space Pad cooled NASA program was successfully launched in 2018. Since then Carbice Space Pads have been cooling spacecraft big and small. Contact us and we will share more.
Typically, every part of an electronic system can be simulated before it is built. However, thermal interface performance could only be assessed conducting in-assembly tests… until now. Carbice SIM is the only simulation tool that can model the actual conditions of your interface in operation. It is so accurate that it is able to match experimentally collected data within ±10%, even in thermal vacuum (TVAC) test settings.
Carbice SIM is a 1st principle modeling tool. It takes inputs from real application interface conditions: interface geometry, materials, atmosphere, and loads from the joint. We solve mechanical and structural problems – e.g. your potted inserts won’t pull out. We output real-world thermal performance – which saves a lot of time and money testing for the right material and assembly.
Carbice SIM provides highly accurate modeling projections for Carbice products only. This is because grease and other TIMs either migrate, exhibit compression set or, in general, don’t perform consistently over time and cycling. When the material moves around unpredictably, exhibits high levels of inelasticity, or degrades, it introduces non-linear effects that pose intractable simulation and forecasting problems. Modeling any of these TIMs will never match the results of actual experiments. Carbice Pads are different; their thermal, mechanical, chemical, electrical properties are so consistent and quantifiable that we’ve been able to achieve ±10% accuracy in our projections.
We will need to know the heat density, whether there are hotspots. We typically need a drawing of your interface, your interface material information, and fastening loads. If you do not have a drawing to share, we can still work with you to get the information necessary for your application.
Yes. We can model unique heating conditions and recommend a suitable solution.
Most semiconductor companies do not manufacture their own chip. Much like fabs have developed broad expertise and affordability serving different customers, the cost of thermal innovation demands a similar model. Carbice Lab leads the way with this new model to lower the cost of thermal design for the industry. We can do it all for you: design, simulate, test, produce, and ship.
Yes. We have the equipment in-house and include it as part of our testing procedure.
We have you covered and it is simple. It is all documented in our installation guide which we provide for each product we ship.
Carbice Pads will outlive your application. When your device is recycled our products are easy to remove: simply peel them off. They can be recycled at the same facility that recycles aluminum cans.