The effects of underfill on the thermal fatigue reliability of solder joints in newly developed flip chip on module

Author(s):  
Jae B. Kwak ◽  
Soonwan Chung
Author(s):  
Qiang Yu ◽  
Masaki Shiratori ◽  
Kimimasa Murayama ◽  
Kazuhiro Igarashi ◽  
Takashi Nakanishi

In recent years many electric equipments have come to be used for cars. Solder joints in electric device utilizing car are exposed to harder environment and required higher reliability than that in electric household appliances. Because of this reason, thermal fatigue reliability of solder joints has become one of the most important issues in car electronics. Generally thermal fatigue reliability is estimated by thermal cycle examination, but it needs long time. Estimation by FEM enables it to improve reliability and to reduce time. Analysis of solder life generally can predict only initial crack. But it is important to predict crack propagation and solder joints break down, considering that a function of solder joints is electric connection. In this study, the authors proposed a method to predict break down life by analytical approach.


2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 3963-3966
Author(s):  
Yong Cheng Lin ◽  
Jing Hong Lu ◽  
Jun Zhang

Fatigue failure of solder joints is a serious reliability concern in area array technologies. A non-linear finite element model was made to study the effects of underfill material and substrate flexibility on solder joint thermal fatigue. Accelerated temperature cycling loading was imposed to evaluate the reliability of solder joints in test flip chip assembly. The results show that the underfill material and substrate flexibility can improve the distribution of stress/strain and reduce the magnitude of stress/strain in the solder joints. Therefore, the reliability of solder joints under thermal cycling condition can be enhanced by applying underfill material and selecting the Flex substrates during temperature cycling.


2006 ◽  
Vol 5-6 ◽  
pp. 359-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Gong ◽  
C. Liu ◽  
P.P. Conway ◽  
Vadim V. Silberschmidt

SnAgCu solder is a promising lead-free material for interconnections in electronic packages. However, its melting temperature (490°K) is considerably higher than that of the traditional SnPb solder (456°K). At the same time, SnAgCu has much better creep resistance at high temperature. These properties may cause large residual stresses during manufacturing processes due to the mismatch of thermal properties of electronic components that can influence the reliability of solder joints in electronic packages. This paper studies the residual stresses in solder joints in a flip chip package under different cooling conditions and their influence on the subsequent cyclic test by means of a finite element approach. The results show that the initial temperature of 453°K is high enough to induce residual stresses due to manufacturing procedures. Simulations, based on traditional creep-fatigue models, demonstrate that the residual stresses affect the mechanical behaviour of solder joints in several initial thermal cycles but have little effect on their reliability.


Author(s):  
Akihiko Tosaka ◽  
Qiang Yu ◽  
Tadahiro Shibutani ◽  
Satoshi Kondo ◽  
Masaki Shiratori

The miniaturization and the high integration of electronic device parts were progressed by the advance in technology, and it leads the problems of warpage of high-integrated component during mounting processes. This kind mismatch would be released slowly after the components are assembled. Therefore, it is concerned that the deformation of the solder joints caused by the warpage should give some impact on the thermal fatigue reliability of solder joints, because the solder joints are subjected not only to the cyclic thermal mismatch but also to the considerable one direction bending load. This state is called as multi-loads in this study. The thermal cyclic fatigue reliability of solder joints had been studied by using analytical and heat cyclic testing approaches, and it is shown that the fatigue life can be assessed by Manson-Coffin’s law. However, the reliability evaluation techniques for multi-loads problem have not been established. In this study, the relation between the fatigue reliability and the multi-loads conditions was studied and the BGA (Ball Grid Array) package was chosen as the target. The author proposed a new cyclic bending test method to achieve the different conditions of the multi-loads, and based upon the experimented and analytical results it was found that impact of the multi loads some cases neglected for could not be.


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