Power electronic devices often fail due to over temperature
and the operational performance and longtime reliability are affected. Here the failure mechanism is analyzed in detail
especially for the failure process of the Al wires and wire-bonding
which is demonstrated by the detection of the fluctuation characteristic of the junction temperature field distribution by mid-wave infrared imaging camera. It is found that the main failures at high junction temperature and under high temperature gradient are lift-off and burn of the wire-bonding
while V
CE
gradually gets lower and the thermal resistance remains steady. Then the methodology to extend lifetime and improve operation reliability is presented
and the theory of the fast power cycling test is provided. An improved lifetime prediction model is obtained by fitting the test data
where the current rate and peak juncti
on temperature are also considered. The temperature application range is widened from 80 K to 100 K.
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