Patent ID: 7443185

Claim:
An apparatus for the efficient removal of heat from a hot surface comprising: an anchoring surface wherein the root portions of each of a plurality of wires is anchored to said anchoring surface, the wires being grown from the root portions, enabling the conduction of the heat through said plurality of wires away from the hot surface; a base inside of which said anchoring surface is mounted, such that a free end of at least one of said plurality of wires peers above side walls of said base; and means for applying axial forces to the free ends of said plurality of wires to create a contact pressure that cause bending deformation of at least one of said plurality of wires against said hot surface when said base is forced against said hot surface; wherein application of said axial forces increases any of: the number of wires from said plurality of wires having thermal contact to said hot surface, and thermal contact area between said hot surface and said at least one of said plurality of wires, and wherein said contact pressure is controlled, predetermined, and predicted in an approach which is one of: deterministic or probabilistic.