Aging of epoxy moulding compound: Thermomechanical properties during high temperature storage

Bingbing Zhang, Micheal Johlitz, Alexander Lion, Leo Ernst, Kaspar Jansen, Duc-Khoi Vu, Laurens Weiss

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Abstract

It is well known that epoxy moulding compound (EMC) plays an important role in the reliability of electronic packages. In order to predict the mechanical behaviour of electronic packages that are encapsulated with moulding compound, the material properties of EMCs should be carefully characterized and modelled. Currently, more and more components are exposed to severe environments. Among these, high temperature conditions can lead to irreversible changes in EMCs. These changes can be attributed to chemical processes such as oxidation and can lead to degradation of the applied resins, which we refer to here as aging. As a result, the thermo-mechanical properties of the EMCs change severely with time. Due to ongoing changes in the aging EMC of a package, the stress and strain distributions in the package change with time, while embrittlement affects the fracture strength. As a consequence, the long-term reliability of a package is severely affected. Since an appropriate constitutive representation of the material properties of the slowly growing oxidation layers is not available, it is cumbersome to predict the reliability of real packages for long term applications. Being motivated by this limitation, in the present work, we focus on the experimental characterization as well as on the numerical modelling of aging of EMCs at high temperature storage (HTS). As a result the long term stress-strain distribution of a package can be simulated.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 17th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ, USA
PublisherIEEE Society
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-1-5090-2106-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventEuroSimE 2016: 17th International Conference on Thermal Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems - Montpellier, France
Duration: 17 Apr 201620 Apr 2016
Conference number: 17
https://www.eurosime.org/index.php/2016-montpellier/

Conference

ConferenceEuroSimE 2016
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMontpellier
Period17/04/1620/04/16
Internet address

Keywords

  • Aging (Materials)
  • Electromagnetic compatibility
  • Temperature measurement
  • Temperature
  • High temperature superconductors
  • Oxidation
  • Material properties

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