Patent ID: 8168990

Claim:
A thermal energy dissipating arrangement, comprising: a semiconductor device including a semiconductor circuit having a top portion and a bottom portion, the semiconductor circuit defining a semiconductor junction between two dissimilar semiconductor regions, and encapsulating material in physical contact with and completely surrounding the semiconductor circuit, including the top portion and the bottom portion, the semiconductor junction defining a plane, and a thermally conductive medium defining an opening therethrough sized to receive the semiconductor device such that the thermally conductive medium defining the opening is in physical, thermally conductive contact with an exterior surface of the encapsulating material about the semiconductor device with the thermally conductive medium defining the opening intersecting an angle of less than or equal to a predefined angle relative to the plane defining the semiconductor junction about a periphery of the semiconductor circuit, the thermally conductive medium absorbing thermal energy generated within the semiconductor device as a result of current flow through the semiconductor junction and rejecting the absorbed thermal energy to an ambient environment surrounding the thermally conductive medium.