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Rocchetta, Roberto (author), Zhan, Zhouzhao (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Di Bucchianico, Alessandro (author)Lifetime analyses are crucial for ensuring the durability of new Light-emitting Diodes (LEDs) and uncertainty quantification (UQ) is necessary to quantify a lack of usable failure and degradation data. This work presents a new framework for predicting the lifetime of LEDs in terms of lumen maintenance, effectively quantifying the natural...journal article 2024
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Herzog, Alexander (author), Benkner, Simon (author), Zandi, Babak (author), Buffolo, Matteo (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Meneghini, Matteo (author), Khanh, Tran Quoc (author)We report on the degradation mechanisms and dynamics of silicone encapsulated ultraviolet A (UV-A) high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with a peak wavelength of 365nm. The stress tests were carried out for a period of 8665 hours with forward currents between 350mA and 700mA and junction temperatures up to 132°C. Depending on stress...journal article 2023
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Sun, B. (author), Mo, J. (author), Zhang, Hemin (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The thermal-piezoresistive effect in silicon (Si) has attracted great attention toward high-performance resonant devices but still faces major challenges for harsh environment applications. Instead of using Si, this paper, for the first time, reports a thermal-piezoresistive resonator based on a silicon carbide-on-insulator (SiCOI) platform. The...conference paper 2023
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Hu, X. (author), Martin, H.A. (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Huang, J.L. (author), Rijckevorsel, H. (author), Scholten, H. (author), Smits, E.C.P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Resin-reinforced silver (Ag) sintering material is an effective and highly reliable solution for power electronics packaging. The hybrid material’s process parameters strongly influence its microstructure and pose a significant challenge in estimating its effective properties as a thin interconnect layer. This research demonstrates a novel 3D...conference paper 2023
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Inamdar, A.S. (author), van Soestbergen, Michiel (author), Mavinkurve, Amar (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Moulding compounds used for encapsulating electronics typically occupy a large portion of package volume and are most exposed to the external environment. Under harsh conditions such as high temperature, humidity, and mechanical vibrations, constituent materials of electronic components degrade, resulting in a change in their thermal, mechanical...conference paper 2023
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Yazdan Mehr, M. (author), Hajipour, Pejman (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Cooremans, Thierry (author), De Buyl, Francois (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Adhesive bonding is a key joining technology in many industrial applications, including automotive, aerospace industries, biomedical devices, and microelectronic components. Adhesive bonding is gaining more and more attention due to the increasing demand for joining similar or dissimilar components, mostly within the framework of designing...conference paper 2023
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Du, L. (author), Hu, D. (author), Poelm, René (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The application of microporous sintered copper (Cu) as a bonding material to replace conventional die-attach materials in power electronic devices has attracted considerable interest. Many previous studies have focused on the effect of processing parameters (temperature, time, pressure) on the microstructure evolution of sintered Cu. However,...conference paper 2023
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Martin, Henry (author), Reintjes, Marcia (author), Reijs, Dave (author), Dorrestein, Sander (author), Kengen, Martien (author), Libon, Sebastien (author), Smits, Edsger (author), Tang, Xiao (author), Koelink, Marco (author), Poelma, René H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Integrated Circuits and Electronic Modules experience concentrated thermal hot spots, which require advanced thermal solutions for effective distribution and dissipation of heat. The superior thermal properties of diamonds are long known, and it is an ideal material for heat-spreading applications. However, growing diamond films to the...conference paper 2023
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Thukral, V. (author), Bacquet, Irene (author), Van Soestbergen, Michiel (author), Zaal, Jeroen (author), Roucou, Romuald (author), Rongen, Rene (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Board level vibration testing is a commonly used method to predict the solder joint reliability of surface-mounted components seated onto printed circuit boards (PCB). Current board level vibration test methods are mainly developed from a solely mechanical stress application standpoint. This makes such stress tests one dimensional in nature...conference paper 2023
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Du, L. (author), Zhao, Xiujuan (author), Poelma, René H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)SnBiAgCu solder alloy is an attractive soldering material for temperature-sensitive electronic devices due to its excellent creep properties. This study firstly reports the creep properties of SnBiAgCu solder alloy under different temperatures. Results show that the addition of Bi resulted in better creep resistance compared with that of...conference paper 2023
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van Driel, W.D. (author), Jacobs, B. (author), Watte, P. (author), Zhao, X. (author)Reliability is an essential scientific and technological domain intrinsically linked with system integration. Nowadays, semiconductor industries are confronted with ever-increasing design complexity, dramatically decreasing design margins, increasing chances for and consequences of failures, shortening of product development and qualification...journal article 2022
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Herrmann, A. (author), Erich, S. J.F. (author), van der Ven, L. G.J. (author), Huinink, H. P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), van Soestbergen, M. (author), Mavinkurve, A. (author), De Buyl, F. (author), Fischer, H. R. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Adan, O. C.G. (author)Epoxy Mold Compounds (EMC) are used to protect integrated circuits (IC) from environmental influences, with one of these influences being moisture ingress, causing corrosion. To obtain the needed thermal and mechanical properties EMCs require a high loading of (silica) fillers, introducing a large amount of interface. While silane coupling...journal article 2022
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Benkner, Simon (author), Herzog, Alexander (author), Klir, Stefan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Khanh, Tran Quoc (author)The unique radiative, photometric and colorimetric characteristic of a light-emitting diode is derived from its spectral power distribution. Modeling such characteristics with respect to the forward current, temperature or operating time has been subject of various studies. Deriving a simple analytical model, however, is not trivial due to the...journal article 2022
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Martin, H.A. (author), Sattari, R. (author), Smits, E.C.P. (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)With an increasing demand for high-power electronics, the need to meet stringent automotive norms and better understand the critical failure mechanisms are crucial in order to improve their reliablity. To that end, we developed an in-situ reliability monitoring setup capable of actively measuring the thermal performance of the package during...conference paper 2022
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Herzog, Alexander (author), Wagner, Max (author), Benkner, Simon (author), Zandi, Babak (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Khanh, Tran Quoc (author)We report on the degradation dynamics and mechanisms of the commercially available chip-on-board (COB) high-power light-emitting diode (LED) modules with an electrical power of 175 W. Due to the associated thermal load, the temperature dependence of the aging processes is additionally analyzed within the scope of this work. The aging tests...journal article 2022
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Thukral, V. (author), van Soestbergen, M. (author), Zaal, J.J.M. (author), Roucou, R. (author), Rongen, R.T.H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Board level vibration testing is intended to assess prediction of the reliability of solder joint interconnects that are formed between electronic components and printed circuit boards (PCB). Frailties in the stress test experiment might lead to false board level reliability (BLR) evaluations. Therefore, it is essential to have a well...review 2022
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van Driel, W.D. (author), Jacobs, B.M.M. (author), Onushkin, G. (author), Watte, P. (author), ZHAO, X. (author), Davis, J. Lynn (author)Reliability is an essential scientific and technological domain intrinsically linked with system integration. Nowadays, semiconductor industries are confronted with ever-increasing design complexity, dramatically decreasing design margins, increasing chances for and consequences of failures, shortening of product development and qualification...book chapter 2022
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Yazdan Mehr, M. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this chapter, degradation mechanisms of optical materials, used in the light-emitting diode (LED)-based products, are explained. This chapter aims at describing the service conditions on the degradation mechanisms of different organic optical materials in LEDs which lead to the color shift of the light output. The contributions of different...book chapter 2022
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Herrmann, A. (author), van Soestbergen, M. (author), Erich, S. J.F. (author), van der Ven, L. G.J. (author), Huinink, H. P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Mavinkurve, A. (author), De Buyl, F. (author), Adan, O. C.G. (author)The risk of corrosion poses a challenge to meet the stringent reliability requirements of microelectronic devices that are used in harsh environments. Microelectronic devices are often encapsulated in polymer packaging materials, which protect them from corrosion. These polymers are, however, not completely hermetic and thus allow small...journal article 2022
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Du, L. (author), Zhao, Xiujuan (author), Watte, Piet (author), Poelma, René H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The objective of this article is to investigate the thermal-fatigue properties of a commercially available lead-free solder alloy (SnBiAgCu) under the use of different types of potting compounds. Solder alloys with lower silver content are expected to substitute the conventional solder alloys SAC305 (Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu). First, the tensile...conference paper 2022