This paper discusses various types of failure mechanisms, precursor parameters, and accelerated aging-based procedures to estimate the remaining life of power electronic …
Power electronics plays an important role in a wide range of applications in order to achieve high efficiency and performance. Increasing efforts are being made to improve the reliability …
H Huang, PA Mawby - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a method to estimate the inverter lifetime so that we can predict a failure prior to it actually happening. The key contribution of this study is to link the physics of the …
Wide band gap (WBG) power electronic devices, such as silicon carbide metal–oxide– semiconductor field-effect transistors (SiC MOSFETs) and gallium–nitride high-electron …
KN Tu, Y Liu - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
We review five solder joint reactions in 3D IC packaging technology which are of wide interest:(1) Scallop-type growth of Cu 6 Sn 5 in solid-liquid interdiffusion reaction,(2) Whisker …
B Hu, JO Gonzalez, L Ran, H Ren… - … on device and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The superior electro-thermal properties of silicon carbide (SiC) power devices permit higher temperature of operation and enable higher power density compared with silicon devices …
A Syed - 2004 Proceedings. 54th electronic components and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pb free solder is fast becoming a reality in electronic manufacturing due to marketing and legislative pressures. The industry has pretty much concluded that various versions of …
In this paper a physical model for lifetime estimation of standard power modules is proposed. The lifetime prediction is based on the assumption that the solder …
Low-cycle thermal-mechanical fatigue loadings induce progressive and permanent degradation of mechanical properties of lead-free solder materials, and thus reduce the …