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Damage Evolution in Al Wire Bonds Subjected to a Junction Temperature Fluctuation of 30K (2016)
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Agyakwa, P., Yang, L., Arjmand, E., Evans, P., Corfield, M., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Damage Evolution in Al Wire Bonds Subjected to a Junction Temperature Fluctuation of 30K. Journal of Electronic Materials, 45, 3659-3672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-016-4519-0

© 2016, The Author(s). Ultrasonically bonded heavy Al wires subjected to a small junction temperature fluctuation under power cycling from 40°C to 70°C were investigated using a non-destructive three-dimensional (3-D) x-ray tomography evaluation appr... Read More about Damage Evolution in Al Wire Bonds Subjected to a Junction Temperature Fluctuation of 30K.

Predicting Lifetime of Thick Al Wire Bonds Using Signals Obtained From Ultrasonic Generator (2016)
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Arjmand, E., Agyakwa, P., Corfield, M., Li, J., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Predicting Lifetime of Thick Al Wire Bonds Using Signals Obtained From Ultrasonic Generator. IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, 6(5), 814-821. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2016.2543001

Routine monitoring of the wire bonding process requires real-time evaluation and control of wire bond quality. In this paper, we present a nondestructive technique for detecting bond quality by the application of a semisupervised classification algor... Read More about Predicting Lifetime of Thick Al Wire Bonds Using Signals Obtained From Ultrasonic Generator.

Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement (2016)
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Eleffendi, M. A., Yang, L., Agyakwa, P., & Johnson, C. M. (2016). Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement. Microelectronics Reliability, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.01.002

Transient thermal impedancemeasurement is commonly used to characterize the dynamic behaviour of the heat flowpath in power semiconductor packages. This can be used to derive a “structure function”which is a graphical representation of the internal s... Read More about Quantification of cracked area in thermal path of high-powermulti-chip modules using transient thermal impedance measurement.

A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires (2016)
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Arjmand, E., Agyakwa, P. A., Corfield, M. R., Li, J., Mouawad, B., & Mark Johnson, C. (2016). A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires. Microelectronics Reliability, 59, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2016.01.009

In this work we report on a reliability investigation regarding heavy copper wires ultrasonically bonded onto active braze copper substrates. The results obtained from both a non-destructive approach using 3D X-ray tomography and shear tests showed n... Read More about A thermal cycling reliability study of ultrasonically bonded copper wires.