Thermal Characteristics of Liquid Metal Interconnects for Power Semiconductors

Zhongchao Sun; Asger Bjorn Jorgensen; Nick Baker; Szymon Beczkowski; Wendi Guo; Stig Munk-Nielsen; Francesco Iannuzzo

doi:10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131435

Thermal Characteristics of Liquid Metal Interconnects for Power Semiconductors

Zhongchao Sun, Asger Bjorn Jorgensen, Nick Baker, Szymon Beczkowski, Wendi Guo, Stig Munk-Nielsen, Francesco Iannuzzo

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Abstract

Due to its electrical conductivity and fluidity, liquid metal interconnection has the potential to become a new industrial power semiconductors packaging application method to solve the failure of wire bonding liftoff and improve the reliability of power semiconductor applications. As a crucial characteristic in use, the thermal characteristics of liquid metal interconnects for power semiconductors are obtained experimentally in this paper. By powering a diode die in a bridge busbar liquid metal interconnect structure, the thermal resistance from the die to the ambient is extracted. The result shows that the liquid metal interconnects method has the potential to improve the thermal behavior of power semiconductors compared with wire-bonding interconnection. The finite element simulation explains the possible reasons causing abnormal temperature responses among some samples. Besides, during the test, a slow decline in the forward voltage of the module is observed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	APEC 2023 - 38th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Publication date	2023
Pages	1135-1140
Article number	10131435
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665475396
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131435
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	38th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2023 - Orlando, United States Duration: 19 Mar 2023 → 23 Mar 2023

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Conference	38th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	19/03/2023 → 23/03/2023
Sponsor	IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA)

Series	Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC
Volume	2023-March

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liquid metal
packaging
simulation
thermal characteristics
wire-bonding

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Sun, Z., Jorgensen, A. B., Baker, N., Beczkowski, S., Guo, W., Munk-Nielsen, S., & Iannuzzo, F. (2023). Thermal Characteristics of Liquid Metal Interconnects for Power Semiconductors. In APEC 2023 - 38th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (pp. 1135-1140). Article 10131435 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131435

Sun, Zhongchao ; Jorgensen, Asger Bjorn ; Baker, Nick et al. / Thermal Characteristics of Liquid Metal Interconnects for Power Semiconductors. APEC 2023 - 38th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), 2023. pp. 1135-1140 (Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC, Vol. 2023-March).

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