Patent ID: 11933546
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  C  H  Y | IPC C  F  H

Claim 18:
19. A thermal compensation layer comprising:
a metal inverse opal (MIO) layer that includes a plurality of core-shell phase change (PC) particles encapsulated within a metal of the MIO layer,
wherein each of the core-shell PC particles comprises:
a core comprising a phase change material (PCM) with a PC temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 250° C.; and
a shell comprising a shell material having a melt temperature greater than the PC temperature of the PCM,

wherein the PCM is selected from the group consisting of tin, tin alloy, indium, and indium alloy.