Reliability and Lifetime Prediction Model of Sintered Silver Under High-Temperature Cycling

Paret, Paul; Major, Joshua; De Voto, Douglas; Narumanchi, Sreekant; Ding, Chao; Lu, Guo-Quan

doi:10.1109/jestpe.2021.3121195

Reliability and Lifetime Prediction Model of Sintered Silver Under High-Temperature Cycling

Journal Article · Tue Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/jestpe.2021.3121195· OSTI ID:1827894

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National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)

Although excellent reliability has been reported for sintered silver as a die-attach material under both thermal and power cycling loads in power electronics applications, the promise of this material as a large-area attachment at temperatures beyond 200 degrees C needs to be investigated. This paper presents insights into the thermomechanical behavior and reliability of sintered silver under extreme thermal cycling conditions. In this study, we bonded sintered silver samples and subjected it to a thermal cycling profile of -40 °C to 200 °C with high ramp rates. We periodically monitored samples under thermal cycling to detect the presence of any failure mechanisms using a scanning acoustic microscope. We also included 95Pb5Sn solder in the study to obtain reference data. Results show the occurrence of cracks in sintered silver followed by a rapid rate of crack growth that exceeded the failure criterion in just 50 cycles. The predominant failure mechanism we observed was adhesive failure. As a large-area attachment, solder exhibited a higher reliability than sintered silver but failed within 100 cycles. Finally, we performed thermomechanical modeling to compute strain energy density values and correlated these with the experimentally observed crack growth rates to formulate a lifetime prediction model for sintered silver.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1827894

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5400-79748; MainId:36968; UUID:408fddb4-ccba-41f0-b51e-af891f6e72cf; MainAdminID:63224

Journal Information:: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Journal Name: IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 10; ISSN 2168-6777

Publisher:: IEEECopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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