Title : 
FEM simulations for built-in reliability of innovative Liquid Crystal Polymer-based QFN packaging and Sn96.5Ag3Cu0.5 solder joint
         
        
            Author : 
Chenniki, Walide ; Bord-Majek, Isabelle ; Levrier, B. ; Wongtimnoi, Komkrisd ; Diot, Jean-Luc ; Ousten, Y.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
IMS Lab., Univ. of Bordeaux, Talence, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this study, Quad Flat No-lead (QFN) cavity package based on LCP and the reliability impact of the package geometry are investigated. A well-established model of Sn96.5Ag3Cu0.5 solder joint fatigue based on the Darveaux´s methodology leading to strain energy density estimation is used. A dedicated Design of Experiments (DoE) is performed to assess the optimal thermo-mechanical properties of the LCP package leading to the maximum operating lifetime. A correlation between predicted lifetime results and optimal thermo-mechanical properties of the package is obtained depending on the geometry of the QFN under study.
         
        
            Keywords : 
copper alloys; design of experiments; electronics packaging; fatigue; finite element analysis; liquid crystal polymers; reliability; silver alloys; solders; thermomechanical treatment; tin alloys; Darveaux methodology; DoE; FEM simulations; QFN cavity package; SnAgCu; built-in reliability; design of experiments; fatigue; liquid crystal polymer; optimal thermomechanical properties; package geometry; quad flat no-lead cavity package; reliability impact; solder joint; strain energy density estimation; Abstracts; Finite element analysis; Lead; Materials;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Thermal, mechanical and multi-physics simulation and experiments in microelectronics and microsystems (eurosime), 2014 15th international conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Ghent
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-4791-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EuroSimE.2014.6813805