Automated Design-for-Reliability of a Power Electronics Module
The design of a power electronics module is a multiphysics problem and involves electrical, thermal, and reliability targets and constraints. Although the electrical and thermal design consider multiple aspects such as materials, geometry, and energy losses, reliability design is often limited to the selection of the attachment materials and electrical interconnect types. In this paper, we incorporate reliability metrics in the design phase by investigating the impact of package geometry on the thermomechanical behavior of the die-attachment material. To this end, we conducted thermal and power cycling simulations of a commercial six-pack power module with silicon carbide devices to compute junction temperature and strain energy density per cycle, respectively. We performed multiple simulations with different geometric dimensions and established a correlation between input features and output variables using subspace-based dimension reduction. The machine learning-based dimension reduction method serves as a surrogate model, which can be employed to identify the optimal module design from a thermal and reliability standpoint.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 1996229
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/CP-5400-84824; MainId:85597; UUID:35eeb1a2-3008-49be-8704-24045f3f4930; MainAdminID:70254
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Presented at the 2023 22nd IEEE Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), 30 May - 2 June 2023, Orlando, Florida
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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