To reveal the drop failure modes of the wafer level chip scale packages (WLCSPs) with Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu solder joints, board level drop tests were performed according to the JEDEC standard. Six failure modes were iden...To reveal the drop failure modes of the wafer level chip scale packages (WLCSPs) with Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu solder joints, board level drop tests were performed according to the JEDEC standard. Six failure modes were identified, i.e., short FR-4 cracks and complete FR-4 cracks at the printing circuit board (PCB) side, split between redistribution layer (RDL) and Cu under bump metallization (UBM), RDL fracture, bulk cracks and partial bulk and intermetallic compound (IMC) cracks at the chip side. For the outmost solder joints, complete FR-4 cracks tended to occur, due to large deformation of PCB and low strength of FR-4 dielectric layer. The formation of complete FR-4 cracks largely absorbed the impact energy, resulting in the absence of other failure modes. For the inner solder joints, the absorption of impact energy by the short FR-4 cracks was limited, resulting in other failure modes at the chip side.展开更多
High performance can be obtained for the integrated power electronics module(IPEM) by using a three-dimensional packaging structure instead of a planar structure. A three- dimensional packaged half bridge-IPEM (HB-...High performance can be obtained for the integrated power electronics module(IPEM) by using a three-dimensional packaging structure instead of a planar structure. A three- dimensional packaged half bridge-IPEM (HB-IPEM), consisting of two chip scale packaged MOSFETs and the corresponding gate driver and protection circuits, is fabricated at the laboratory. The reliability of the IPEM is controlled from the shape design of solder joints and the control of assembly process parameters. The parasitic parameters are extracted using Agilent 4395A impedance analyzer for building the parasitic parameter model of the HB- IPEM. A 12 V/3 A output synchronous rectifier Buck converter using the HB-IPEM is built to test the electrical performance of the HB-IPEM. Low voltage spikes on two MOSFETs illustrate that the three-dimensional package of the HB-IPEM can decrease parasitic inductance. Temperature distribution simulation results of the HB-IPEM using FLOTHERM are given. Heat dissipation of the solder joints makes the peak junction temperature of the chip drop obviously. The package realizes three-dimensional heat dissipation and has better thermal management.展开更多
A Y-band frequency doubler is analyzed and designed with GaAs planar Schottky diode, which is flip-chip solded into a 50 μm thick quartz substrate. Diode embedding impedance is found by full- wave analysis with lumpe...A Y-band frequency doubler is analyzed and designed with GaAs planar Schottky diode, which is flip-chip solded into a 50 μm thick quartz substrate. Diode embedding impedance is found by full- wave analysis with lumped port to model the nonlinear junction for impedance matching without the need of diode equivalent circuit model. All the matching circuit is designed "on-chip" and the mul- tiplier is self-biasing. To the doubler, a conversion efficiency of 6.1% and output power of 5.4mW are measured at 214GHz with input power of 88mW, and the typical measured efficiency is 4.5% in 200 - 225 GHz.展开更多
A reliability of flip-chip bonded die as a function of anisotropic conductive paste (ACP) hybrid materials, bonding conditions, and antenna pattern materials was investigated during the assembly of radio frequency ide...A reliability of flip-chip bonded die as a function of anisotropic conductive paste (ACP) hybrid materials, bonding conditions, and antenna pattern materials was investigated during the assembly of radio frequency identification(RFID) inlay. The optimization condition for flip-chip bonding was determined from the behavior of bonding strength. Under the optimized condition, the shear strength for the antenna printed with paste-type Ag ink was larger than that for Cu antenna. Furthermore, an identification distance was varied from the antenna materials. Comparing with the Ag antenna pattern, the as-bonded die on Cu antenna showed a larger distance of identification. However, the long-term reliability of inlay using the Cu antenna was decreased significantly as a function of aging time at room temperature because of the bended shape of Cu antenna formed during the flip-chip bonding process.展开更多
Ice cores contain an abundance of information about the Earth's climate in the past, and recovered from shallow drilling down to 300-350 m give sufficient information for reconstructing of the last climatic changes a...Ice cores contain an abundance of information about the Earth's climate in the past, and recovered from shallow drilling down to 300-350 m give sufficient information for reconstructing of the last climatic changes and for monitoring of pollution from human being. Cable-suspended core auger drills use an armored cable with a winch to provide power to the down-hole motor system and to retrieve the down-hole unit. Because of their lightweight, convenient transportation and installation, high penetration rates and low power consumption, core auger drills are widely used for shallow drilling in ice. Nowadays at least 14 types of auger electromechani- cal drills were designed and tested in different foreign and national glaciological laboratories. However, auger options were usually determined by experience, and the main parameters ( helix angle of the fights and rotational speed) are varied in a wide range from drill to drill. If parameters of auger are not chosen properly, poorly en- gineered drills had troubles with low efficiency of cuttings transportation, jam of ice cuttings, repeated fragmen- tation, cutters icing and stop penetration, abnormal power consumption, high rotation torques, and so on. Thus, this paper presents the method of optimization of iee cuttings transportation of cable-suspended core auger drill on the base of the theory of rotary auger. As the result, the optimal helix angle was determined correspond- ing to the rotational speed from the transportation efficiency point of view.展开更多
In the extraction method for preparing KH2PO4, one of the key processes is the selective extraction of HCI over H3PO4. In our work, extraction kinetic studies have been carried out in a microfluidic device with a coax...In the extraction method for preparing KH2PO4, one of the key processes is the selective extraction of HCI over H3PO4. In our work, extraction kinetic studies have been carried out in a microfluidic device with a coaxial microchannel, using the extractant of 33.3% (by volume) trioctylamine (TOA) dissolved in n-octanol, with differ- ent aqueous phases: the HCI solution, the H3P04 solution, and H3PO4 and KCI solutions of different concentra- tions. The changes of the extraction efficiency of HC1 and H3P04 and the selectivity for HC1 along with the residence time were investigated. We found that fast extraction kinetics could be realized in microfluidic devices, and that HC1 could be extracted faster than H3P04 due to smaller mass transfer resistance and much stronger re- action between HCI and TOA. For the extraction of H3PO4 and KC1 solutions, the selectivity for HC1 first increased and then decreased when TOA was in excess of H3PO4 in the initial feeds, and in contrast, always increased when H3PO4 was in excess of TOA in the initial feeds. The diverse changes of selectivity for HCI along with the residence time indicate that a dynamic control of selectivity in microfluidic devices may be important and accessible for im- proving the KH2P04 conversion efficiency in extraction method.展开更多
Cancer cells differ from normal cells in various parameters, and these differences are caused by genomic mutations and consequential altered gene expression. The genetic and functional heterogeneity of tumor cells is ...Cancer cells differ from normal cells in various parameters, and these differences are caused by genomic mutations and consequential altered gene expression. The genetic and functional heterogeneity of tumor cells is a major challenge in cancer research, detection, and effective treatment. As such, the use of diagnostic methods is important to reveal this heterogeneity at the single-cell level. Droplet microfluidic devices are effective tools that provide exceptional sensitivity for analyzing single cells and molecules. In this review, we highlight two novel methods that employ droplet microfluidics for ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids and protein markers in cancer cells. We also discuss the future practical applications of these methods.展开更多
Multichip on Ahnnintnn Metal Plate(MOAMP) technology with simple structure and low thermal resistance is developed for effective heat reratrval of Light Emitting Diode(LED) p-n junction and LED lighting module to ...Multichip on Ahnnintnn Metal Plate(MOAMP) technology with simple structure and low thermal resistance is developed for effective heat reratrval of Light Emitting Diode(LED) p-n junction and LED lighting module to have high reliability. The thermal resistance of LED modules was numerical and experimental. Thermal resistance from the jtnction to aluminten metal plate, considering input power of IFD module using MOAMP technology, is 3.02 K/W, 3.23 K/W for the measured and calculated, respectively. We expect that the reported MOAMP technology with low thermal resistance will be a promising solution for high power LED fighting modules.展开更多
Constitutive models aimed at predicting the mechanical response of lead-core bearing devices for passive seismic isolation are discussed in this paper. The study is focused on single-degree-of-freedom models which pro...Constitutive models aimed at predicting the mechanical response of lead-core bearing devices for passive seismic isolation are discussed in this paper. The study is focused on single-degree-of-freedom models which provide a relation between the shear displacement (shear strain) and the shear force (shear stress) in elastomeric and lad-core rubber bearings. Classical Bouc-Wen model along with a numerical procedure for identification of the model constants is described. Alternatively, a constitutive relation introducing a damage variable aimed at assessing the material degradation is also considered.展开更多
This paper presents the neutron energy spectrum in the central position of a neutron flux trap assembled in the core center of the research nuclear reactor IPEN/MB-01, obtained by an unfolding method. To this end, we ...This paper presents the neutron energy spectrum in the central position of a neutron flux trap assembled in the core center of the research nuclear reactor IPEN/MB-01, obtained by an unfolding method. To this end, we have used several different types of activation foils (Au, Sc, Ti, Ni, and plates) which have been irradiated in the central position of the reactor core (setting number 203) at a reactor power level (64.57±2.91 watts). The activation foils were counted by solid-state detector HPGe (high pure germanium detector) (gamma spectrometry). The experimental data of nuclear reaction rates (saturated activity per target nucleus) and a neutron spectrum estimated by a reactor physics computer code are the main input data to get the most suitable neutron spectrum in the irradiation position obtained through SANDBP (spectrum analysis neutron detection code-version Budapest University) code: a neutron spectra unfolding code that uses an iterative adjustment method. the integral neutron flux, (2.41 ± 0.01) × 10^9 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for the thermal The adjustment resulted in (3.85 ± 0.14) × 10^9 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for neutron flux, (1.09 ±0.02) × 10^9n·cm^-2·s^-1 for intermediate neutron flux and (3.41 ± 0.02) × 10^8 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for the fast neutrons flux. These results can be used to verify and validate the nuclear reactor codes and its associated nuclear data libraries, besides, show how much effective it can be that the use of a neutron flux trap in the nuclear reactor core to increase the thermal neutron flux without increase the operation reactor power level. The thermal neutral flux increased 4.04 ± 0.21 times compared with the standard configuration of the reactor core.展开更多
The paper deals with unusual use of one kind of ECA (electrically conductive adhesive)---the ICA (isotropic conductive adhesive). The main sphere of ECA application is electronic assembly, e.g., it is bonding of s...The paper deals with unusual use of one kind of ECA (electrically conductive adhesive)---the ICA (isotropic conductive adhesive). The main sphere of ECA application is electronic assembly, e.g., it is bonding of semiconductor microchips on printed circuits boards. In this sphere, the ECA compete with soft solder. In spite of this fact, the author utilized of two main ECA characteristics--good electrical conductivity and excellent adhesion to material surfaces to make the fiat thermocouples. Both the design of thermocouples and the measuring device and the measuring workplace arrangement are described. The measured data of thermoelectric voltages are plotted. The thermoelectric (Seebeck's) coefficients were calculated from obtained dependences of thermoelectric voltage versus the temperature differences.展开更多
Heat dissipation of electronic devices keeps as a tough issue for decades. As the most classical coolant in a convective heat transfer process, water has been widely adopted which however inherits with limited thermal...Heat dissipation of electronic devices keeps as a tough issue for decades. As the most classical coolant in a convective heat transfer process, water has been widely adopted which however inherits with limited thermal conductivity and relies heavily on mechanical pump. As an alternative, the room temperature liquid metal was increasingly emerging as an important coolant to realize much stronger enhanced heat transfer. However, its thermal capacity is somewhat lower than that of water, which may restrict the overall cooling performance. In addition, the high cost by taking too much amount of liquid metal into the device also turns out to be a big concern for practical purpose. Here, through combining the individual merits from both the liquid metal with high conductivity and water with large heat capacity, we proposed and demonstrated a new conceptual cooling de- vice that integrated hybrid coolants, radiator and annular channel together for chip thermal management. Particularly, the elec- trically induced actuation effect of liquid metal was introduced as the only flow driving strategy, which significantly simplified the whole system design. This enables the liquid metal sphere and its surrounding aqueous solution to be quickly accelerated to a large speed under only a very low electric voltage. Further experiments demonstrated that the cooling device could effective- ly maintain the temperature of a hotpot (3.15 W/cm2) below 55℃ with an extremely small power consumption rate (0.8 W). Sev- eral situations to simulate the practical working of the device were experimentally explored and a theoretical thermal resistance model was established to evaluate its heat transfer performance. The present work suggests an important way to make highly compact chip cooling device, which can be flexibly extended into a wide variety of engineering areas.展开更多
基金Projects(51475072,51171036)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘To reveal the drop failure modes of the wafer level chip scale packages (WLCSPs) with Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu solder joints, board level drop tests were performed according to the JEDEC standard. Six failure modes were identified, i.e., short FR-4 cracks and complete FR-4 cracks at the printing circuit board (PCB) side, split between redistribution layer (RDL) and Cu under bump metallization (UBM), RDL fracture, bulk cracks and partial bulk and intermetallic compound (IMC) cracks at the chip side. For the outmost solder joints, complete FR-4 cracks tended to occur, due to large deformation of PCB and low strength of FR-4 dielectric layer. The formation of complete FR-4 cracks largely absorbed the impact energy, resulting in the absence of other failure modes. For the inner solder joints, the absorption of impact energy by the short FR-4 cracks was limited, resulting in other failure modes at the chip side.
基金Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation(No.91058)the Natural Science Foundation of High Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province(No.08KJD470004)Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province of 2008
文摘High performance can be obtained for the integrated power electronics module(IPEM) by using a three-dimensional packaging structure instead of a planar structure. A three- dimensional packaged half bridge-IPEM (HB-IPEM), consisting of two chip scale packaged MOSFETs and the corresponding gate driver and protection circuits, is fabricated at the laboratory. The reliability of the IPEM is controlled from the shape design of solder joints and the control of assembly process parameters. The parasitic parameters are extracted using Agilent 4395A impedance analyzer for building the parasitic parameter model of the HB- IPEM. A 12 V/3 A output synchronous rectifier Buck converter using the HB-IPEM is built to test the electrical performance of the HB-IPEM. Low voltage spikes on two MOSFETs illustrate that the three-dimensional package of the HB-IPEM can decrease parasitic inductance. Temperature distribution simulation results of the HB-IPEM using FLOTHERM are given. Heat dissipation of the solder joints makes the peak junction temperature of the chip drop obviously. The package realizes three-dimensional heat dissipation and has better thermal management.
基金Supported by the 12th Five-year Defense Pre-research Fund of China(No.51308030509)
文摘A Y-band frequency doubler is analyzed and designed with GaAs planar Schottky diode, which is flip-chip solded into a 50 μm thick quartz substrate. Diode embedding impedance is found by full- wave analysis with lumped port to model the nonlinear junction for impedance matching without the need of diode equivalent circuit model. All the matching circuit is designed "on-chip" and the mul- tiplier is self-biasing. To the doubler, a conversion efficiency of 6.1% and output power of 5.4mW are measured at 214GHz with input power of 88mW, and the typical measured efficiency is 4.5% in 200 - 225 GHz.
基金supported by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) of Korea (10031777)
文摘A reliability of flip-chip bonded die as a function of anisotropic conductive paste (ACP) hybrid materials, bonding conditions, and antenna pattern materials was investigated during the assembly of radio frequency identification(RFID) inlay. The optimization condition for flip-chip bonding was determined from the behavior of bonding strength. Under the optimized condition, the shear strength for the antenna printed with paste-type Ag ink was larger than that for Cu antenna. Furthermore, an identification distance was varied from the antenna materials. Comparing with the Ag antenna pattern, the as-bonded die on Cu antenna showed a larger distance of identification. However, the long-term reliability of inlay using the Cu antenna was decreased significantly as a function of aging time at room temperature because of the bended shape of Cu antenna formed during the flip-chip bonding process.
基金Supported by Project of the National Science Foundation of China(No.41327804)
文摘Ice cores contain an abundance of information about the Earth's climate in the past, and recovered from shallow drilling down to 300-350 m give sufficient information for reconstructing of the last climatic changes and for monitoring of pollution from human being. Cable-suspended core auger drills use an armored cable with a winch to provide power to the down-hole motor system and to retrieve the down-hole unit. Because of their lightweight, convenient transportation and installation, high penetration rates and low power consumption, core auger drills are widely used for shallow drilling in ice. Nowadays at least 14 types of auger electromechani- cal drills were designed and tested in different foreign and national glaciological laboratories. However, auger options were usually determined by experience, and the main parameters ( helix angle of the fights and rotational speed) are varied in a wide range from drill to drill. If parameters of auger are not chosen properly, poorly en- gineered drills had troubles with low efficiency of cuttings transportation, jam of ice cuttings, repeated fragmen- tation, cutters icing and stop penetration, abnormal power consumption, high rotation torques, and so on. Thus, this paper presents the method of optimization of iee cuttings transportation of cable-suspended core auger drill on the base of the theory of rotary auger. As the result, the optimal helix angle was determined correspond- ing to the rotational speed from the transportation efficiency point of view.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(91334201)
文摘In the extraction method for preparing KH2PO4, one of the key processes is the selective extraction of HCI over H3PO4. In our work, extraction kinetic studies have been carried out in a microfluidic device with a coaxial microchannel, using the extractant of 33.3% (by volume) trioctylamine (TOA) dissolved in n-octanol, with differ- ent aqueous phases: the HCI solution, the H3P04 solution, and H3PO4 and KCI solutions of different concentra- tions. The changes of the extraction efficiency of HC1 and H3P04 and the selectivity for HC1 along with the residence time were investigated. We found that fast extraction kinetics could be realized in microfluidic devices, and that HC1 could be extracted faster than H3P04 due to smaller mass transfer resistance and much stronger re- action between HCI and TOA. For the extraction of H3PO4 and KC1 solutions, the selectivity for HC1 first increased and then decreased when TOA was in excess of H3PO4 in the initial feeds, and in contrast, always increased when H3PO4 was in excess of TOA in the initial feeds. The diverse changes of selectivity for HCI along with the residence time indicate that a dynamic control of selectivity in microfluidic devices may be important and accessible for im- proving the KH2P04 conversion efficiency in extraction method.
基金supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. NIH/NGRR 1R21RR025371–01 to IS)
文摘Cancer cells differ from normal cells in various parameters, and these differences are caused by genomic mutations and consequential altered gene expression. The genetic and functional heterogeneity of tumor cells is a major challenge in cancer research, detection, and effective treatment. As such, the use of diagnostic methods is important to reveal this heterogeneity at the single-cell level. Droplet microfluidic devices are effective tools that provide exceptional sensitivity for analyzing single cells and molecules. In this review, we highlight two novel methods that employ droplet microfluidics for ultrasensitive detection of nucleic acids and protein markers in cancer cells. We also discuss the future practical applications of these methods.
文摘Multichip on Ahnnintnn Metal Plate(MOAMP) technology with simple structure and low thermal resistance is developed for effective heat reratrval of Light Emitting Diode(LED) p-n junction and LED lighting module to have high reliability. The thermal resistance of LED modules was numerical and experimental. Thermal resistance from the jtnction to aluminten metal plate, considering input power of IFD module using MOAMP technology, is 3.02 K/W, 3.23 K/W for the measured and calculated, respectively. We expect that the reported MOAMP technology with low thermal resistance will be a promising solution for high power LED fighting modules.
文摘Constitutive models aimed at predicting the mechanical response of lead-core bearing devices for passive seismic isolation are discussed in this paper. The study is focused on single-degree-of-freedom models which provide a relation between the shear displacement (shear strain) and the shear force (shear stress) in elastomeric and lad-core rubber bearings. Classical Bouc-Wen model along with a numerical procedure for identification of the model constants is described. Alternatively, a constitutive relation introducing a damage variable aimed at assessing the material degradation is also considered.
文摘This paper presents the neutron energy spectrum in the central position of a neutron flux trap assembled in the core center of the research nuclear reactor IPEN/MB-01, obtained by an unfolding method. To this end, we have used several different types of activation foils (Au, Sc, Ti, Ni, and plates) which have been irradiated in the central position of the reactor core (setting number 203) at a reactor power level (64.57±2.91 watts). The activation foils were counted by solid-state detector HPGe (high pure germanium detector) (gamma spectrometry). The experimental data of nuclear reaction rates (saturated activity per target nucleus) and a neutron spectrum estimated by a reactor physics computer code are the main input data to get the most suitable neutron spectrum in the irradiation position obtained through SANDBP (spectrum analysis neutron detection code-version Budapest University) code: a neutron spectra unfolding code that uses an iterative adjustment method. the integral neutron flux, (2.41 ± 0.01) × 10^9 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for the thermal The adjustment resulted in (3.85 ± 0.14) × 10^9 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for neutron flux, (1.09 ±0.02) × 10^9n·cm^-2·s^-1 for intermediate neutron flux and (3.41 ± 0.02) × 10^8 n·cm^-2·s^-1 for the fast neutrons flux. These results can be used to verify and validate the nuclear reactor codes and its associated nuclear data libraries, besides, show how much effective it can be that the use of a neutron flux trap in the nuclear reactor core to increase the thermal neutron flux without increase the operation reactor power level. The thermal neutral flux increased 4.04 ± 0.21 times compared with the standard configuration of the reactor core.
文摘The paper deals with unusual use of one kind of ECA (electrically conductive adhesive)---the ICA (isotropic conductive adhesive). The main sphere of ECA application is electronic assembly, e.g., it is bonding of semiconductor microchips on printed circuits boards. In this sphere, the ECA compete with soft solder. In spite of this fact, the author utilized of two main ECA characteristics--good electrical conductivity and excellent adhesion to material surfaces to make the fiat thermocouples. Both the design of thermocouples and the measuring device and the measuring workplace arrangement are described. The measured data of thermoelectric voltages are plotted. The thermoelectric (Seebeck's) coefficients were calculated from obtained dependences of thermoelectric voltage versus the temperature differences.
基金supported by the Research Funding from the Technical Institute of Physics and ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences
文摘Heat dissipation of electronic devices keeps as a tough issue for decades. As the most classical coolant in a convective heat transfer process, water has been widely adopted which however inherits with limited thermal conductivity and relies heavily on mechanical pump. As an alternative, the room temperature liquid metal was increasingly emerging as an important coolant to realize much stronger enhanced heat transfer. However, its thermal capacity is somewhat lower than that of water, which may restrict the overall cooling performance. In addition, the high cost by taking too much amount of liquid metal into the device also turns out to be a big concern for practical purpose. Here, through combining the individual merits from both the liquid metal with high conductivity and water with large heat capacity, we proposed and demonstrated a new conceptual cooling de- vice that integrated hybrid coolants, radiator and annular channel together for chip thermal management. Particularly, the elec- trically induced actuation effect of liquid metal was introduced as the only flow driving strategy, which significantly simplified the whole system design. This enables the liquid metal sphere and its surrounding aqueous solution to be quickly accelerated to a large speed under only a very low electric voltage. Further experiments demonstrated that the cooling device could effective- ly maintain the temperature of a hotpot (3.15 W/cm2) below 55℃ with an extremely small power consumption rate (0.8 W). Sev- eral situations to simulate the practical working of the device were experimentally explored and a theoretical thermal resistance model was established to evaluate its heat transfer performance. The present work suggests an important way to make highly compact chip cooling device, which can be flexibly extended into a wide variety of engineering areas.