Papers by Keyword: HALT

Abstract: Recently, Halt (Highly accelerated limit test) is widely employed for evaluation of reliability of electronic products. Halt condition is quite severe. The tested products are subjected to mechanical impacts, thermal shock, and vibration at same time. However, there has not been a reasonable and accurate evaluation method for Halt yet. To construct an accurate evaluation method of Halt, basic deformation mechanism of parts of the electronic products should be clarified from both experimental and theoretical points of view. In this paper, focusing on solder joints of circuit boards of electronic products, ratchetting deformation, especially, biaxial ratchetting deformation of solder joints is revealed from both experimentally and theoretically. The authors have already conducted biaxial ratchetting test combining axial and torsional cyclic loading using a tubular specimen of Type 304 stainless steel. However, as for solders, it is difficult to make tubular specimen. Since size of the solder joints is micron, a small size joint specimen of copper tube and solder is employed in this paper. First, to confirm the quality of the joint specimen such as boundary between copper and solder, both the tensile and cyclic loading tests are conducted at several temperatures using Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu. The basic characteristic of tensile and fatigue failure is obtained from these tests. After the confirmation of the accuracy of the joint specimen, biaxial ratchetting tests are conducted superposing the tensile load on cyclic torsion. The biaxial ratchetting tests are conducted using a biaxial loading testing machine developed for the joint specimens of solder and copper.

Abstract: Microstructure control in thin-layer multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) is one of the challenges for increasing capacitive volumetric efficiency and high voltage dielectric properties. In this paper, the X5R-MLCCs with ultra-thin dielectric layers (~1.2 μm) owning uniform grain size distribution were prepared by wet casting process. The microstructures and dielectric properties of the MLCCs were investigated. The existence of core-shell structure was proved by transmission electron microscopy observation and energy dispersive spectroscopy analysis. The existence of core-shell structure makes the temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC) performance meet X5R standard. Moreover, a highly accelerated lifetime test (HALT) result shows that MLCCs with ultra-thin layers under high electric field are more easily to fail with increasing test temperatures. And the results reveal that the activation energy is similar to the value reported for mid-dielectric constant dielectrics.

Abstract: The super-Gaussian random vibration test has increasingly attracted attention for its existed advantages in comparison with traditional random vibration test. The super-Gaussian random signal generation principle is investigated in study based on the research about control theory for the super-Gaussian random vibration test, meanwhile, super-Gaussian random drive signal used in control system is obtained from Poisson process and filter theory. The experiment proves that high control accuracy of output power spectrum and kurtosis can be realized by taking super-Gaussian random vibration control strategy proposed in paper, which is consistent with the requirement in engineering. In the end, super-Gaussian random vibration control system is applied into the Highly Accelerated life Testing(HALT) for the incandescent lamp, and a comparison between super-Gaussian random vibration test and traditional Gaussian distribution random vibration test is carried out, the comparison results indicate that super-Gaussian random vibration excitation signal comparing with Gaussian distribution signal can markedly quicken the fatigue failure process for incandescent lamp.