电阻法测量无铅焊点蠕变的有效性实验研究

为了解用于焊点性能评估的电阻测试法能否精确反映其蠕变特性,利用特制的焊点测试系统,同步采集无铅焊点在室温、25 N载荷下的电阻应变和剪切蠕变.实验表明它们的总体变化趋势相似,均可分为线性与指数阶段,但变化速率存在明显差异.两者临界拐点的延时程度与焊点的尺寸因子k有关,在一定的范围内(k= 4.5～8.5),延时程度仅在...     

电流密度对Sn3.0Ag0.5Cu焊点蠕变行为的影响

通过观察焊点的电阻变化和显微组织演变,研究了电流密度对Sn3.0Ag0.5Cu焊点蠕变行为的影响。结果表明:焊点在低电流密度条件下蠕变时,其电阻波动大、寿命长,失效机制由蠕变过程主导,损伤逐渐累积导致最终失效;焊点在高电流密度条件下蠕变时,其电阻波动小、寿命短,电迁移作用缓解了焊点的初期蠕变损伤,但是加速了焊点后期脆性断裂失效。     

基于电阻应变的无铅焊点损伤临界点在线检测

蠕变损伤是引起焊点失效的重要因素,实验表明在蠕变过程中存在一个临界点,在临界点之前蠕变呈现一种缓慢的增长趋势,而在临界点之后蠕变加速进行,导致焊点很快失效。找出此临界点对了解焊点的性能及寿命预测有重要意义,但传统的蠕变测试方法不能实时测得焊点的蠕变损伤临界点。研究表明焊点的蠕变损伤与其电阻变化存在着线性关系,因此可以通过测量焊点的电阻变化来监测其蠕变情况。文章以单个无铅焊点为研究对象,利用特制的无铅焊点微电阻在线测量系统,实时监测焊点在蠕变过程中的电阻变化,并利用二次移动平均法建立焊点电阻的预测模型,通过对比预测电阻值与实测值的差异实时找出焊点的损伤临界点,为蠕变测试研究提供了一种新的方法。     

基于电阻应变临界点的无铅焊点失效分析

利用特制的焊点在线测试系统,测试了不同载荷条件下单个无铅焊点的电阻应变曲线,推导出电阻应变和损伤量之间的定量关系式,分析了焊点失效特性。结果表明:无铅焊点电阻应变曲线包括线性变化区和指数变化区;两个区域临界点处的电阻应变值为0.05左右,临界点至失效的时间约占焊点寿命的20.00%～30.00%;热循环条件下,40℃的电阻应变曲线临界点滞后于125℃的临界点,滞后时间约占焊点寿命的7.50%。     

湿热环境下倒装焊无铅焊点的可靠性

对板上倒装芯片底充胶进行吸湿实验,并结合有限元分析软件研究了底充胶在湿敏感元件实验标准MSL—1条件下吸湿和热循环阶段的解吸附过程,测定了湿热环境对Sn3.8Ag0.7Cu焊料焊点可靠性的影响,并用蠕变变形预测了无铅焊点的疲劳寿命。结果表明:在湿热环境下,底充胶材料内部残留的湿气提高了焊点的应力水平。当分别采用累积蠕变应变和累积蠕变应变能量密度寿命预测模型时,无铅焊点的寿命只有1740和1866次循环周期。     

LGA焊点形态对焊点寿命影响的有限元分析

通过Surface Evolver软件对LGA焊点进行了三维形态预测,利用有限元数值模拟对LGA焊点在热循环条件下寿命进行了分析。研究了热循环条件下LGA焊点的应力应变分布规律,随着焊点远离元件的中心位置焊点所受到的等效应力、等效应变和塑性应变能密度逐渐增大,从而得出处于外面拐角的焊点最先发生失效的结论。基于塑性应变范围和Coffin-Manson公式计算了焊点热疲劳寿命;找出了LGA焊点形态对焊点寿命的影响规律,模板厚度一定时PCB焊盘尺寸小于上焊盘时LGA焊点的热疲劳寿命与PCB焊盘尺寸成正比,大于上焊盘时成反比,大约相等时焊点寿命最大。当PCB焊盘和模板开孔尺寸固定时,通过增大模板厚度来增加焊料体积在一定程度上可提高LGA焊点的热疲劳寿命,但是模板厚度增大到一定值时LGA焊点寿命会逐渐降低。     

无铅焊点的电阻应变温度迟滞回线特性

在焊点热可靠性研究过程中,发现无铅焊点在313.15～398.15K循环热载荷条件下电阻应变与温度存在滞后效应,以力学分析方法对该效应的迟滞回线进行了分析讨论。结果表明:塑性电阻应变是引起迟滞回线变化的主要原因;稳定期内一个循环的最大塑性电阻应变量是0.00158,电阻应变滞后于温度变化18.31s;高温迟滞回线变化较低温更明显,二者相差0.0036749,反映了高温下焊点内部损伤程度更快。随着循环次数的增多,迟滞回线从不稳定趋向稳定,最后趋向不闭合,且斜率降低。     

芯片尺寸封装焊点的可靠性分析与测试

利用ANSYS有限元分析软件,将芯片尺寸封装(CSP)组件简化为了二维模型,并模拟了CSP组件在热循环加栽条件下的应力应变分布;通过模拟发现了组件的结构失效危险点,然后对危险点处的焊点热疲劳寿命进行了预测;最后进行了CSP焊点可靠性测试.结果表明,用薄芯片可提高焊点可靠性.当芯片厚度从0.625 mm减小到0.500 ...     

BGA焊点纳米压痕实验有限元模拟分析

采用有限元方法模拟了BGA焊点的纳米压痕实验的加、卸载过程,并根据得出的应力应变分布云图,通过分析从各关键部位提取的应力应变随时间变化的关系,对焊点发生失效的位置及蠕变特征进行了讨论。首先建立BGA单个焊点的模型,设定其几何参数、边界条件、材料特性与加载方式,然后利用有限元分析工具MARC进行计算与标准试样实验结果相比较,通过反复修正应力-应变关系曲线,直至分析所得载荷-位移曲线与试验曲线很好地吻合,证实了模拟的可靠性,研究结果对焊点的可靠性评估有一定的指导意义。     

晶圆级芯片尺寸封装柔性焊点热循环可靠性

建立了晶圆级芯片尺寸封装(WLCSP)柔性无铅焊点三维有限元分析模型,基于该模型对柔性无铅焊点热循环等效应力应变进行了分析,并预测了焊点可靠性寿命。选取第一柔性层厚度、第二柔性层厚度、上焊盘直径和下焊盘直径作为关键因素,采用L16(45)正交设计了16种不同水平组合的柔性无铅焊点,获取了这些焊点的热循环等效应力数据,对等效应力数据进行了极差分析和方差分析。结果表明:在热循环加载条件下,采用柔性层结构方式能有效降低焊点内的等效应力应变;在置信度为90%的情况下,下焊盘直径和第一柔性层厚度对柔性焊点等效应力有显著影响。各因素对焊点等效应力的影响排序为下焊盘直径影响最大,其次是第一柔性层厚度,再次是第二柔性层厚度,最后是上焊盘直径。     

热循环加载条件下SMT焊点应力应变过程的有限元分析

ＳＭＴ焊 热循环条件下的应力应变过程分析是ＳＭＴ焊点可靠性的重要方向。本文采用粘弹塑性材料模式描述ＳｎＰｂ钎料的力学本构响应，对非城堡型ＬＣＣＣ焊蹼结构进行三维有限元分析，考察焊点在热循环加载过程中的应力应变等力学行为。研究结果表明，焊点钎料内的高应力发生在热循环的低温阶段，升降温过程中的蠕变和非弹性应变的累积显著，蠕变应变在非弹性应变中占主导地位，应力应变滞后环在热循环的最初几个周期内就能很快稳     

Microstructure and creep behaviour of eutectic SnAg and SnAgCu solders

The paper presents creep data, that was gained on specimens of different microstructures. The three specimen types have been flip chip solder joints, pin trough hole solder joints and standard bulk solder specimens. The bulk solder specimen was a dog-bone type specimen (diameter=3 mm, LENGTH=117 mm). The pin trough hole solder joint consisted on a copper wire that was soldered into a hole of a double sided printed circuit board (thickness 1.5 mm). The flip chip solder joint specimen consisted of two silicon chips (4 mm × 4 mm), which were connected by four flip chip joints (one on each corner). SnAg and SnAgCu flip chip bumps (footprint 200 μm × 200 μm, joint height 165–200 μm, centre diameter 90…130 μm) were created by printing solder paste.Constant–load creep tests were carried out on all three specimen types at temperatures between 5 and 70 °C. Creep data was taken for strain rates between 10⁻¹⁰ and 10⁻³ s⁻¹. The specimens were tested in “as cast” condition and after thermal storage.The microstructural properties of the bulk specimens and real solder joints were examined using metallographic sectioning, optical microscopy techniques, and SEM-microprobe analysis. The results of the microstructural analysis were related to the investigated mechanical properties of the solders. Models of SnAg3.5 and SnAg4Cu0.5, that can be used with the ANSYS FEM software package, will be presented.     

A Method to Identify Steady Creep Strain from Indentation Creep Using a New Reference Area of Indentation

For the design of high-density electronic packages, finite element method (FEM) analyses to evaluate strength reliabilities of solder joints should be conducted by employing the material parameters which can precisely reflect the creep properties of solder joints in actual electronic equipment. To obtain accurate results of the structural analyses of the solder joints, a method to evaluate the steady-state creep deformation in situ must be developed. The indentation creep test is an effective method to evaluate the creep properties of the solder joints in situ; however, the creep properties obtained by this method do not give the same results as those obtained by tensile creep tests using bulk specimens. In this paper, the indentation creep test at 1 N loading for 9,000 s duration was experimentally conducted to confirm that the steady-state creep deformation obtained by the indentation creep test did not coincide with that by the tensile creep tests using bulk specimens. To identify the reason, the indentation creep simulation was conducted by FEM analysis. As a result, it was found that the reference area used to obtain the creep strain from the indentation creep test should be modified. A method to obtain the new reference area is proposed from comparisons of experiments with simulations. Finally, this paper shows that the creep properties obtained by the indentation creep test using the new reference area coincided with those obtained by tensile creep tests using bulk specimens.     

Reliability study of package-on-package stacking assembly under vibration loading

The vibration reliability of lead-free solder joints of Package-on-Package (PoP) is investigated by experimental tests and finite element method (FEM) simulations in this paper. A 14 × 14 mm two-tier PoP module was selected for this study. The natural frequencies and modes were determined by FEM and verified by experimental tests. The printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies are tested under harmonic vibration. Vibration test results show that the vibration reliability of top package is better than the bottom package, and the outermost corner solder joints of the bottom package are the critical solder joints for the PoP under vibration loading. The stress characteristics of solder joints obtained by FEM are well correlated with the experimental results. Failure mechanism analysis indicates that the bottom solder joints become the most vulnerable part of the PoP under vibration due to the bigger relative displacements between the PCB and the bottom package. The micro-structural analysis indicates that cracks usually originate in the bottleneck position of the solder balls, extend within bulk solder and then propagate along the interface between the IMC layer and the bulk solder. The influence of bottom solder joints standoff for vibration reliability was analyzed by FEM as well. Results show that the higher the bottom solder joints' standoff, the more difficult the failure for the PoP assembly.     

Optimization of thermo-mechanical reliability of solder joints in crystalline silicon solar cell assembly

A robust solder joint in crystalline silicon solar cell assembly is necessary to ensure its thermo-mechanical reliability. The solder joint formed using optimal parameter setting accumulates minimal creep strain energy density which leads to longer fatigue life. In this study, thermo-mechanical reliability of solder joint in crystalline silicon solar cell assembly is evaluated using finite element modelling (FEM) and Taguchi method. Geometric models of the crystalline silicon solar cell assembly are built and subjected to accelerated thermal cycling utilizing IEC 61215 standard for photovoltaic panels. In order to obtain the model with minimum accumulated creep strain energy density, the L₉ (3³) orthogonal array was applied to Taguchi design of experiments (DOE) to investigate the effects of IMC thickness (IMC_T), solder joint width (SJ_W) and solder joint thickness (SJ_T) on the thermo-mechanical reliability of solder joints. The solder material used in this study is Sn3.8Ag0.7Cu and its non-linear creep deformation is simulated using Garofalo-Arrhenius creep model. The results obtained indicate that solder joint thickness has the most significant effect on the thermo-mechanical reliability of solder joints. Analysis of results selected towards thermo-mechanical reliability improvement shows the design with optimal parameter setting to be: solder joint thickness — 20 μm, solder joint width — 1000 μm, and IMC thickness — 2.5 μm. Furthermore, the optimized model has the least damage in the solder joint and shows a reduction of 47.96% in accumulated creep strain energy density per cycle compared to the worst case original model. Moreover, the optimized model has 16,264 cycles to failure compared with the expected 13,688 cycles to failure of a PV module designed to last for 25 years.     

Superplastic creep of eutectic tinlead solder joints

This paper presents experimental evidence that as-solidified eutectic Pb-Sn solder joints can exhibit superplastic behavior in shear creep loading. Stepped load creep tests of as-solidified joints show a change in the stress exponent from a high value typical of con-ventional creep at high stress and strain rate to a superplastic value near 2 at lower stress and strain rates. In addition, the change in stress exponent is accompanied by a change in the activation energy for creep from a value near that for bulk self-diffusion (20 kcal/mol) to a value near that for grain boundary diffusion (12 kcal/mol). The total shear deformation of joints in stress-rupture tests performed at 65° C are found to ex-ceed 150%. The concomitant observation that quenched solder joints creep faster than air-cooled ones is attributed to a grain, or phase, size dependence of the strain rate. The source of superplastic behavior is a fine, equiaxed microstructure. It is not yet clear whether the superplastic microstructure is present in the as-solidified joint, or develops during the early stages of plastic deformation.     

Thermally induced deformation of solder joints in real packages: Measurement and analysis

The paper presents a hybrid experimental and analytical approach to track the deformation of solder joints in an electronic package subject to a thermal process. The solder joint strain is directly measured using a computer vision technique. The strain measurement is analyzed following an approach that is devised based on an established solder constitutive relation. The analysis leads to the determination of the solder joint stress and in turn, to the separation of the elastic, plastic and creep strain from the measured total strain. The creep strain rate and stress–strain hysteresis loop are also obtained. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the applications and to show the viability of the approach. Each case involves a resistor package with SAC (Sn95.5Ag3.8Cu0.7) solder joints, which is subjected to a temperature variation between ambient and 120 °C. The results confirm that shear is a dominant strain component in such solder joints. The shear strain varies nearly in phase with the temperature whereas the shear stress exhibits a different trend of variation due to stress relaxation. The peak shear stress of around 10 MPa to 15 MPa are found, which occur at near 70 °C in both cases, when the temperature ramps up at approximately 3 °C/min. The creep shear strain goes up to 0.02 and accounts for over 80% of the total shear strain. The creep strain rate is in the order of magnitude of 10⁻⁵ s⁻¹. Responding to the temperature cycling with such moderate rate, the creep strain shows modest ratcheting while the stress–strain hysteresis stabilizes in two cycles.     

A new experimental method to evaluate creep fatigue life of flip-chip solder joints with underfill

A new accelerated stress test method was developed to evaluate creep life of flip-chip solder joints with underfill. With this method, a cyclic creep test can be done simply by applying a displacement to the FR-4 printed circuit board (PCB) board in the axial direction. The creep fatigue test was performed under displacement control with real-time electrical continuity monitoring. Test results show that the displacement arising from the force is equivalent to the thermal stress during thermal expansion. It was found that the magnitude of displacement was proportional to the inelastic strain sustained by the solder joints. This indicates that the creep fatigue life obtained will not only reflect the quality of the solder joints, but can also be used to characterize the reliability of the flip-chip assembly. Finite element modeling was also performed to confirm the agreement of deformation of the solder joints under mechanical and thermal loading. Results suggest that deformation and strain of the flip-chip assembly are consistent or comparable between the mechanical and thermal cycling. The failure analysis indicates that fatigue cracks often initiate from the top edge of a corner solder joint in the creep fatigue test, which is similar to what would happen in thermal cycling test. Lastly, the effect of underfill on the creep fatigue test is discussed. It is postulated that the test method is applicable to other flip-chip assemblies, such as conductive adhesive interconnections.     

Effects of cooling rate on mechanical properties of near-eutectic tin-lead solder joints

This paper reports the results of a study on the effect of the cooling rate during solidification on the shear creep and low cycle shear fatigue behavior of 60 Sn/40 Pb solder joints, and on bulk solder tensile properties. Solder joints were made with three different initial microstructures by quenching, air-cooling and furnace-cooling. They have similar steady-state strain rates under creep at relatively high shear stresses (i.e. in the matrix creep region) but creep at quite different strain rates at lower shear stresses (i.e. in the grain boundary creep region). These results are ascribed to the refined grain size and less lamellar phase morphology that results on increasing the cooling rate. Tensile tests on bulk solders that were cold-worked, quenched and furnace-cooled show that a faster cooling rate decreases the ultimate strength and increases the ductility at low strain rates. The fatigue life of quenched solder joints is shown to be longer than that of the furnace-cooled joints.