Study of Bonding Wire Failure Effects on External Measurable Signals of IGBT Module

Author

Wei Kexin ; Du Mingxing ; Xie Linlin ; Li Jian

Author_Institution

Tianjin Key Lab. of Control Theor. & Applic. in Complicated Syst., Tianjin Univ. of Technol., Tianjin, China

Volume

14

Issue

1

fYear

2014

fDate

Mar-14

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

89

Abstract

The relationship between bonding wire liftoff and terminal voltage in insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power module is studied. Bonding wire liftoff failure is one of the most dominant limiting factors to the reliability behavior of IGBT power module. In this paper, in order to monitor this type of fault, the effects of the typical degradations are considered. The parasitic inductance and gate equivalent capacitance of IGBT module change due to bonding wire liftoff, which have different impacts on the external characteristics. So, two aspects of IGBT module terminal characteristics are investigated to identify any measurable signature used for monitoring bond wire liftoff failures: 1) gate-emitter voltage during turn-on process and 2) collector-emitter voltage during turn-off process. This paper aims to provide useful information for further development in monitoring the health of IGBT module.

Keywords

failure analysis; fault diagnosis; insulated gate bipolar transistors; lead bonding; power bipolar transistors; semiconductor device reliability; IGBT power module; bonding wire failure effect; bonding wire liftoff failure; collector-emitter voltage; external measurable signal; gate equivalent capacitance; gate-emitter voltage; insulated gate bipolar transistor power module; parasitic inductance; reliability behavior; terminal voltage; turn-off process; turn-on process; Bonding; Capacitance; Circuit faults; Inductance; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Logic gates; Wires; Fault indicator; insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs); semiconductor device reliability; wire bond liftoff;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Device and Materials Reliability, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-4388

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TDMR.2012.2200485

Filename

6203569