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Thermal and thermo-mechanical behavior of internal silver-diamond heat spreaders for power electronic modules

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Publication Date2024-09-25
AuthorsAitor Casado Ramoneda, Yvan Avenas, Rabih Khazaka, Cyrille Gautier, Toni Youssef
InstitutionsInstitut polytechnique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Thermal performance of SiC MOSFET power modules has become essential to increase the heat extraction given the higher density losses of such technology due to the reduction of the die area. Novel Silver Diamond (AgD) internal spreaders are presented as an effective and a simple solution to decrease temperature at the package level. The AgD spreader technology is compared to modules without spreaders and to modules with Molybdenum Copper alloy (70Mo30Cu) and copper spreaders. A parametric study is performed to investigate the interest in thermal performance improvement and assembly residual stress reduction. Silver diamond and copper spreader modules are manufactured, thermally characterized and compared with a design without spreader.

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