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In high-power electronics packaging, nano-silver sintering technology has been widely applied due to its excellent electrical and thermal conductivity and its low-temperature packaging and high-temperature operation. In this study, 50-nm nano-silver particles are sintered at 275°C for 50 min and placed under a dynamic thermomechanical analyzer (DMA Q800) with three strain rates (0.001%s-1, 0.01%s-1, and 0.1%s-1) and seven ambient temperatures (-40°C, 0°C, 25°C, 60°C, 120°C, 150°C, and 185°C). Both the variable-order fractional constitutive model and Anand model are adopted to characterize the tensile behaviors of sintered nano-silver particles. The results show that (1) the tensile strength of sintered nano-silver particle samples declines under the lower strain rate and higher temperature; and (2) both the variable-order fractional model and Anand model can well represent the tensile mechanical properties of sintered nano-silver. According to the root mean square error (RMSE) calculation, the fitting accuracy of the variable-order fractional model is slightly better than that of the Anand model. Furthermore, the variable-order fractional model involves fewer parameters, which makes it easier to fit than the Anand model.

In high power electronics packaging, sintered silver nanoparticle joints suffer from thermal-humidity- electrical-chemical joint driven corrosion in extreme environments. In this paper, we conducted aging tests on sintered silver nanoparticles under high-temperature, high-humidity, and high-sulphur conditions. The results show that: (1) the sample under the dry high-sulphur conditions at a high temperature exhibited the highest degree of sulphidation; (2) Reactive force field (ReaxFF) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of sintered silver nanoparticle sulphidation revealed the sulphidation layer was formed by silver atoms upward migration. This work paves the way for further investigation on sintered silver nanoparticles corrosion considering multi-physics coupling effects.