H. Kristiansen, S. Helland, Erik Kalland, M. A. Ras, C. Grosse
{"title":"Electrical and Thermal Conduction of Isotropic Conductive Adhesive based on Novel Conductive Particles","authors":"H. Kristiansen, S. Helland, Erik Kalland, M. A. Ras, C. Grosse","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423853","url":null,"abstract":"The electrical and thermal properties of a novel conductive adhesive based on silver coated polymer spheres have been measured. The results show that high electrical and thermal conductivity can be obtained with very small volume fractions of silver. The technique makes it possible to tune particle size and silver thickness, to optimize the required conductivity with respect to cost for a range of different applications. The spherical shape of the particles provides a fully isotropic behavior. A simplified model has been made based on the conductivity of a spherical shell and expected contact areas. The model grasps critical elements like the effect of particle size and silver thickness as well as the observed sintering of particles.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133411872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Riikka Mikkonen, S. Lahokallio, L. Frisk, M. Mäntysalo
{"title":"Processing of printed silver patterns on an ETFE substrate","authors":"Riikka Mikkonen, S. Lahokallio, L. Frisk, M. Mäntysalo","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423860","url":null,"abstract":"Printed electronics makes it possible to fabricate devices on thin and flexible substrates at a low cost and with simple processing. However, substrate characteristics can make patterning challenging. Here, we report our approach for processing printed silver patterns on an extremely hydrophobic ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) foil substrate. The effects of selected surface modification methods on substrate characteristics and final print quality were studied, and the thermal characteristics of ETFE were determined. Conductive silver patterns were fabricated using both screen printing and inkjet printing techniques. Additionally, intense pulse light method was compared to thermal annealing as an alternative annealing method. The surface modification of ETFE was observed to affect ink wetting and print quality. It was concluded that the impact of the chosen annealing method on the final characteristics of the printed structures was significant.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128975606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Uhlig, A. Serwa, Jens Müller, N. Gutzeit, D. Schwanke, J. Pohlner
{"title":"LTCC Resistors – The Influence of Production Conditions on the Absolute Value and its Reproducibility","authors":"P. Uhlig, A. Serwa, Jens Müller, N. Gutzeit, D. Schwanke, J. Pohlner","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423847","url":null,"abstract":"Among other virtues like good microwave performance, high density of integration, good thermal conductivity, hermeticity, and robustness, LTCC technology (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) facilitates the integration of passive components like resistors, capacitors and inductors inside the multilayer stack. This option is further increasing the density of integration and improving RF- and microwave capabilities. However, these components rely on special materials (e.g. resistor paste, high-k dielectrics) which are more sensitive to changes in process parameters than standard LTCC tapes and conductor pastes. This paper focusses on resistors embedded in LTCC. It will describe the DOE (design of experiment) for the comparison of the identical resistor test coupon manufactured in three different sites under the same conditions. The test coupon includes typical resistor dimensions for microwave circuits as well as the dimensions that are used by the material manufacturer to test compliance with specifications. A selection of the measurement results of this extensive comparative study is presented and evaluated.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121493642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Component Packages for IMSE™ (Injection Molded Structural Electronics)","authors":"Tomi Simula, P. Niskala, M. Heikkinen, O. Rusanen","doi":"10.23919/nordpac.2018.8423845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/nordpac.2018.8423845","url":null,"abstract":"TactoTek has developed and commercialized an advanced platform of Injection Molded Structural Electronics (IMSE). IMSE is an innovative technology and significantly different from the conventional electronics in which components are reflow soldered onto printed circuit boards. Many of the packages optimized for conventional electronics can be used with IMSE technology. However, they are not ideal. In this paper we present the ideal component package for IMSE integration. We also present the TactoTek internal component qualification process. It verifies that component packages do not lower IMSE manufacturing yield and are reliable in IMSE designs.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131613369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Li, Vadimas Verdingovas, K. Dirscherl, B. Medgyes, R. Ambat
{"title":"Corrosion Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Systems Used in Electronics","authors":"Feng Li, Vadimas Verdingovas, K. Dirscherl, B. Medgyes, R. Ambat","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423855","url":null,"abstract":"The present work investigated the corrosion reliability of five Sn-Ag-Cu (SAC) based lead-free solder alloys. The first focus was placed on microstructural analysis of the intermetallic compounds (IMCs) formation in the ingots of SAC alloys and their influence on micro galvanic corrosion performance. The microstructural and phase analysis of solder alloys has been carried out using the scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) methods. With the potentiostatic technique, the galvanic corrosion has been confirmed between cathodically active Bi phase and anodic (Sn, Sb) solid solution in InnoLot alloy, while the Ag3Sn phase was cathodically active in the other four alloys. In industrial application point of view, the electrochemical migration (ECM) has been reported as the critical issue. Therefore, in order to investigate the ECM susceptibility of five lead-free solder alloys, the study of the solder alloys has been conducted by water droplet (WD) tests on pure alloy ingot samples, and by accelerated humidity/temperature cycling tests on soldered surface insulation resistance (SIR) comb pattern. A ranking of susceptibility for five alloys has been confirmed by Weibull analysis (63.2% failure rate), leakage current level, and charge transfer over time. The paper theoretically illustrated the reason for the differences in corrosion reliability in the five alloys based on the composition and distribution of IMCs.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131825619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Water film formation on the PCBA surface and failure occurrence in electronics","authors":"K. Piotrowska, M. Jellesen, R. Ambat","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423854","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread use of no-clean solder flux technology compromises the corrosion reliability of electronics exposed to humid conditions, and can lead to degradation of the device’s lifetime due to the presence of solder flux residues on the Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) surface after the soldering process. In this work, the effect of hygroscopic flux contamination was assessed in terms of facilitating the water film formation and corrosion on the PCBA surface under varying humidity and temperature conditions. The hygroscopicity of flux residues was evaluated and discussed as a function of flux chemistry and climate conditions for three residue types: adipic acid, glutaric acid, and a binary mixture of adipic:glutaric acids (1:1 ratio). The climatic testing was performed under the relative humidity (RH) conditions varying from 60% to ~99% at 25% and 40% using gravimetric water vapour sorption/desorption and AC electrochemical impedance methods. The corrosivity of flux residues was evaluated through the DC leakage current measurements performed across the interdigitated surface insulation resistance (SIR) comb patterns. The results show that the extent of water layer formation strongly depends on the hygroscopic nature of flux residue, which originates from its chemical structure and temperature. The corrosion occurrence is determined by the residue hygroscopicity and solubility in water. Temperature increase strengthens the residue-moisture interaction, accelerating the formation of water film and corrosion occurrence on the PCBA surface.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130001282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Goldberg, Birgit Manhica, S. Ziesche, U. Partsch
{"title":"Overload-proof LTCC differential pressure sensors for high temperature applications","authors":"A. Goldberg, Birgit Manhica, S. Ziesche, U. Partsch","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423858","url":null,"abstract":"This paper present the development of a miniaturized, overload-proof and high-temperature-stable differential pressure sensor in ceramic multilayer technology for requirements in the automotive, aerospace and chemical industries. Currently there is no cost-effective or suitable solution to make on site active signal processing of the relevant parameters pressure and temperature. The main reasons for this are the lack of active high-temperature components (e.g. pressure and temperature transmitters), as well as the missing but necessary high temperature assembly and connection techniques (mechanical structure and electrical contacts >250 °C). Therefore, the aim of the project is to develop an economically viable solution of a high-temperature and overload-resistant ceramic pressure sensor for measurement data at high temperatures (≥300 °C) and to provide these data (high-temperature electronics / AVT).","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133294242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Screen Printed Conductive Composites with Reduced Graphene Oxide and Silver","authors":"Man Song, Jie Zhao, H. Grennberg, Zhi-Bin Zhang","doi":"10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/NORDPAC.2018.8423856","url":null,"abstract":"This work provides a method to fabricate conductive composites by screen printing of aqueous hybrid inks with graphene oxide (GO) and silver acetate as silver source. The formulation of the aqueous hybrid inks is realized by mixing highly concentrated GO solution and reactive silver solution, which readily results in a formation of viscous pastes. Composite films with four-probe structure were fabricated by means of blade coating, followed by annealing at 160 °C in air and subsequently at 600 °C in Ar/H2. While the reactive silver solution without GO can be completely reduced when annealed at 90 °C in air, resulting in elemental Ag films with resistivity close to the bulk value, no reduction occurs in the hybrid inks under the same annealing condition. Silver nanoparticles are formed from the hybrid inks at 160 °C and discretely distributed on the reduced GOs (rGOs), which shows a retardation effect of GO on the reduction of silver. Further annealing at 600 °C in Ar/H2 leads to partial restoration of sp2 lattice in the rGOs. The resistivity of the composite films increases as the silver content is increased, which is interpreted by using a percolation model with rGO networks.","PeriodicalId":147035,"journal":{"name":"2018 IMAPS Nordic Conference on Microelectronics Packaging (NordPac)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125948561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}