Reliability Criteria for Thick Bonding Wire
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Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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Materials 2018, 11(4), 618; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040618
Received: 1 March 2018
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Revised: 9 April 2018
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Accepted: 12 April 2018
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Published: 17 April 2018
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Materials for Nano/Microelectronic Packaging Applications)
Bonding wire is one of the main interconnection techniques. Thick bonding wire is widely used in power modules and other high power applications. This study examined the case for extending the use of traditional thin wire reliability criteria, namely wire flexure and aspect ratio, to thick wires. Eleven aluminum (Al) and aluminum coated copper (CucorAl) wire samples with diameter 300 μm were tested experimentally. The wire response was measured using a novel non-contact method. High fidelity FEM models of the wire were developed and validated. We found that wire flexure is not correlated to its stress state or fatigue life. On the other hand, aspect ratio is a consistent criterion of thick wire fatigue life. Increasing the wire aspect ratio lowers its critical stress and increases its fatigue life. Moreover, we found that CucorAl wire has superior performance and longer fatigue life than Al wire.
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Keywords:
reliability; electronic packaging; power modules; wire bonding; heel stress
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Dagdelen, T.; Abdel-Rahman, E.; Yavuz, M. Reliability Criteria for Thick Bonding Wire. Materials 2018, 11, 618. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040618
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Dagdelen T, Abdel-Rahman E, Yavuz M. Reliability Criteria for Thick Bonding Wire. Materials. 2018; 11(4):618. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040618
Chicago/Turabian StyleDagdelen, Turker, Eihab Abdel-Rahman, and Mustafa Yavuz. 2018. "Reliability Criteria for Thick Bonding Wire" Materials 11, no. 4: 618. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040618
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