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Microstructure, isothermal and thermomechanical fatigue behaviour of leaded and lead-free solder joints
Ghaleeh, Mohammad Baroutaji, Ahmad Al Qubeissi, Mansour
Ghaleeh, Mohammad
Baroutaji, Ahmad
Al Qubeissi, Mansour
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2020-08-11
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The reliability of solder joints is a critical issue in the microelectronics industry. The requirement of permanent electrical and thermal connections between solder alloys and the various components of a surface mount device is dependent upon the mechanical integrity of the solder and its interfaces. Accordingly, in this paper, the reliability of lead-free, Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu, and leaded, Sn-37Pb, solder alloys was investigated under both thermal-mechanical fatigue (TMF) and isothermal mechanical fatigue (IF) conditions. The investigation included material characterisation and fatigue testing on 4-ball grid array (BGA) specimens. The IF tests were carried out under load control at three different temperatures including Room Temperature (RT), 35 °C and 75 °C. Also, a set of ‘not-in-phase’ (nIP), ‘in-phase’ (IP) and ‘out-of-phase’ (OoP) combined thermal and mechanical cycling tests were carried out to investigate the TMF behaviour of the solders. The stress-life curves for each test condition were generated and then compared taking into account the observations on microstructure. It was found that the IF and TMF performance of Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu alloy was better than Sn-37Pb alloy when expressed as stress-life curves. Additionally, the Sn-3.8Ag-0.7Cu was less susceptible to the changes in temperature. This study provides a comprehensive insight into the reliability of solder alloys under a wide range of loading conditions.
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Ghaleeh, M., Baroutaji, A. and Al Qubeissi, M. (2020) Microstructure, isothermal and thermomechanical fatigue behaviour of leaded and lead-free solder joints, Engineering Failure Analysis, 117 (November 2020), 104846.
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in Engineering Failure Analysis on 11/08/2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfailanal.2020.104846
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1350-6307