MESOSCALE MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION, RELIABILITY AND FAILURE ANALYSIS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSIENT LIQUID PHASE SINTERING JOINTS

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCluskey, Patricken_US
dc.contributor.authorMoeini, Seyed Alien_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-25T06:30:55Z
dc.date.available2018-01-25T06:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThe continuous increase in application temperature of power electronic devices, due to the growing power density, miniaturization, and functionality in military and commercial applications, requires new packaging technologies with high temperature and reliability capabilities. Currently, the traditional maximum allowable temperature of power electronics (125°C) is a limiting factor for high temperature applications, such as space exploration, drilling, avionics, and electronic vehicles. Substitution of Silicon devices with wide bandgap (e.g., SiC) devices has extended the maximum allowable temperatures to 475 ̊C. However, this created the need for robust high temperature packaging materials, especially interconnects and attachments. High temperature solders are often too expensive, too brittle, or environmentally toxic to be used, leading to increased study of low temperature joining techniques, such as solid phase sintering and Transient Liquid Phase Sintering (TLPS), for producing high temperature stable attachments. TLPS is an emerging electronic interconnect technology enabling the formation of high temperature robust joints between metallic surfaces at low temperatures by the consumption of a transient, low temperature, liquid phase to form high temperature stable intermetallic compounds (IMCs). The performance and durability of these materials strongly depend on their microstructure, which is determined by their processing. The complicated process of IMC formation through eutectic solidification and the extensive number of parameters affecting the final microstructure make it impractical to experimentally study the effect of each factor. In this work, phase field modeling of the microstructure of TLPS materials fabricated by different processing methods will be conducted. Phase-field modeling (PFM) is a powerful thermodynamic consistent method in mesoscale modeling that simulates the evolution of intermetallic compounds during the solidification process, providing insight into the final microstructure. Application of this method facilitates the optimization of influential processing factors. Efforts will also be conducted to identify failure modes and mechanisms experimentally under dynamic, power and thermal cycling loads as a function of critical microstructural features, facilitating the optimization of joining parameters to obtain higher durability TLPS interconnections. The objective of this dissertation is to provide an insight into the processing of a reliable high temperature TLPS and facilitate their application in power electronic industries.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2SQ8QK2B
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/20403
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHigh Temperature Interconnectionsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLead-free Soldersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhase Field Modelingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReliability of Power Electronicsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSintered jointsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTransient Liquid Phase Sinteringen_US
dc.titleMESOSCALE MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION, RELIABILITY AND FAILURE ANALYSIS OF HIGH TEMPERATURE TRANSIENT LIQUID PHASE SINTERING JOINTSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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