• DocumentCode
    3243464
  • Title

    Four challenges in thermal management in communication devices

  • Author

    Agonafer, Dereje

  • Author_Institution
    Texas Univ., Arlington, TX, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    1-4 June 2004
  • Firstpage
    710
  • Abstract
    In this paper describes the four challenges in thermal management in communication devices. Four challenges in the electronic packaging industry are challenges in the cooling of three dimensional packages, challenges resulting from thermally induced warpages, thermal challenges arising from spreading and interface resistances and thermal challenges in the implementation of lead free solder. In three dimensional packaging technologies are now emerging field, in which tremendous reduction size and weight of wireless handheld devices. Thermally induced warpage become one of the major concerns in the automated manufacturing and assembly of multilayered PWBs. One of the big challenge in electronic packaging industry is to implement lead free solder alloy. Tin/silver/copper alloys are introduced as lead free solder in packaging.
  • Keywords
    cooling; copper alloys; mobile handsets; printed circuit manufacture; printed circuits; silver alloys; solders; thermal management (packaging); tin alloys; PWB; SnAgCu; automated manufacturing; communication devices; electronic packaging; interface resistances; lead free solder; printed wiring board; reduction size-weight; thermal management; thermally induced warpages; wireless handheld devices; Electronic packaging thermal management; Electronics cooling; Electronics industry; Electronics packaging; Environmentally friendly manufacturing techniques; Handheld computers; Lead; Thermal management; Thermal management of electronics; Thermal resistance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems, 2004. ITHERM '04. The Ninth Intersociety Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8357-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ITHERM.2004.1318366
  • Filename
    1318366