Role of Failure-Mechanism Identification in Accelerated Testing
- 1 July 1993
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology in Journal of the IEST
- Vol. 36 (4) , 39-45
- https://doi.org/10.17764/jiet.2.36.4.b01608702h803nkm
Abstract
Accelerated life testing techniques provide a short-cut method to investigate the reliability of electronic devices with respect to certain dominant failure mechanisms that occur under normal operating conditions. However, accelerated tests have often been conducted without knowledge of the failure mechanisms and without ensuring that the test accelerated the same mechanism as that obscrved under normal operating conditions. This paper summarizes common failure mechanisms in electronic devices and packages and investigates possible failure mechanism shifting during accelerated testing.Keywords
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