Advanced Adhesion Strength Testing Methods of Thin Film Multilayers in Electronic Packaging Systems

dc.contributor.advisorHan, Bongtaeen_US
dc.contributor.authorMahan, Kenneth Howarden_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.accessioned2016-06-22T05:48:32Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:48:32Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractWith the continued miniaturization and increasing performance of electronic devices, new technical challenges have arisen. One such issue is delamination occurring at critical interfaces inside the device. This major reliability issue can occur during the manufacturing process or during normal use of the device. Proper evaluation of the adhesion strength of critical interfaces early in the product development cycle can help reduce reliability issues and time-to-market of the product. However, conventional adhesion strength testing is inherently limited in the face of package miniaturization, which brings about further technical challenges to quantify design integrity and reliability. Although there are many different interfaces in today's advanced electronic packages, they can be generalized into two main categories: 1) rigid to rigid connections with a thin flexible polymeric layer in between, or 2) a thin film membrane on a rigid structure. Knowing that every technique has its own advantages and disadvantages, multiple testing methods must be enhanced and developed to be able to accommodate all the interfaces encountered for emerging electronic packaging technologies. For evaluating the adhesion strength of high adhesion strength interfaces in thin multilayer structures a novel adhesion test configuration called “single cantilever adhesion test (SCAT)” is proposed and implemented for an epoxy molding compound (EMC) and photo solder resist (PSR) interface. The test method is then shown to be capable of comparing and selecting the stronger of two potential EMC/PSR material sets. Additionally, a theoretical approach for establishing the applicable testing domain for a four-point bending test method was presented. For evaluating polymeric films on rigid substrates, major testing challenges are encountered for reducing testing scatter and for factoring in the potentially degrading effect of environmental conditioning on the material properties of the film. An advanced blister test with predefined area test method was developed that considers an elasto-plastic analytical solution and implemented for a conformal coating used to prevent tin whisker growth. The advanced blister testing with predefined area test method was then extended by employing a numerical method for evaluating the adhesion strength when the polymer’s film properties are unknown.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2H77C
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18218
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled4PBen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledadhesion testingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledblister testen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledepoxy molding compound (EMC)en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledphoto solder resist (PSR)en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSCATen_US
dc.titleAdvanced Adhesion Strength Testing Methods of Thin Film Multilayers in Electronic Packaging Systemsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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