Abstract
In high power operations, the ageing of power semiconductor modules has been often observed by several failures due to high temperature cycling. The main failures may be metallization reconstruction, solder delaminations, bond wire lift-offs or bond wire heel crackings, conchoidal breaking of ceramics. The paper focuses on the non-contact monitoring of the ageing of the aluminum metallization top layer and of the solder bottom layer of a power die, using the eddy current method. The ageing is assumed to induce a decrease of these layers conductivity. The evaluation of both layers conductivity changes are estimated using artificial neural networks starting from eddy current data provided by finite element computations carried out in the case of several aged die configurations. The error of estimation is less than a few percent in the considered cases and it demonstrates the relevance of the eddy current method to monitor the ageing state of power modules. The proposed approach provides relevant results which will be validated on experimental data in future works.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 129-141 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Progress In Electromagnetics Research M |
| Volume | 40 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Condensed Matter Physics
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Estimation of the ageing of metallic layers in power semiconductor modules using the eddy current method and artificial neural networks. / Nguyen, Tien A.; Joubert, Pierre Yves; Lefebvre, Stéphane.
In: Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 40, 01.01.2014, p. 129-141.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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