Benchmarking reliability tests for plastic laminate modules

The high volume commercial application for compound semiconductors (at the moment) is cellular phones. Several hundred million wireless phones are being manufactured every year with radios enabled by compound semiconductor amplifiers, receivers, and switches. Recently, portions of these radios have been simplified and compressed into "modules." This packaging transformation may have special reliability concerns that are the subject of this work. An investigation was made into the reliability aspects of modules. Customer requirements were collected and leading suppliers were interviewed for their insight.