Workshop

ECPE Workshop: The Future of Simulation in PE Packaging for Thermal and Stress Management

Date: 20/11/2018 - 21/11/2018

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Technical Chair:

Prof. Dr. Uwe Scheuermann, SEMIKRON Elektronik
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wunderle, TU Chemnitz

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ECPE Workshop: The Future of Simulation in PE Packaging for Thermal and Stress Management

The progress in computing capacity allows today the simulation of realistic geometric models of power electronic assemblies but increasing model sizes will not be sufficient to enable the transition from relative estimations to realistic predictions. To improve the correspondence between FEM simulations and real measurements, the coupling of different physical domains within the simulation process is inevitable.

Thermo-electrical coupling 
The first area of improvement is the realistic simulation of distribution of load current and thus the distribution of power losses on a chip and between parallel chips. In the past, thermal simulation assumed a constant loss density on a chip and on parallel chips. However, since on-state voltage at a defined current is a function of temperature, the losses will also vary in the presence of pronounced lateral temperature gradients. Thermo-electrical coupling is needed to include the interaction between temperature distribution and dissipated losses.

Thermo-mechanical coupling 
The second area of improvement is the mechanical deformation of power modules or packages in operation. Assuming a stress-free condition at a fixed temperature does not reflect the complexity of power packages, since those are produced from sub-assemblies with different (thermal)process history. Even a leadframe transfer-mold device requires at least two assembly steps, the bonding of the chip on the lead frame and the subsequent mold process. Both processes will freeze in stress at different temperature levels, so that the package will suffer from inherent stress even at room temperature. Thermo-mechanical coupling allows to simulate the impact of different assembly steps on the package. However, a realistic simulation of the assembly process requires the knowledge of (rate-dependent) material parameters in the full temperature (and humidity) range to understand the thermo-mechanics of the chip-package-module interactions and to fully exploit the benefits of physics-of-failure-based lifetime modelling for reliability prediction. The determination of material data is a considerable challenge and requires a collaboration of industry and academia.

All presentations and discussions will be in English language.

Proceedings

Workshop

ECPE Workshop: The Future of Simulation in PE Packaging for Thermal and Stress Management

Date: 20/11/2018 - 21/11/2018

Location: Nuremberg, Germany

Technical Chair:

Prof. Dr. Uwe Scheuermann, SEMIKRON Elektronik
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wunderle, TU Chemnitz

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