A Comparison of Thermal Cycling and Thermal Shock for Evaluating Solder Joint Reliability
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The industry standard for accelerated temperature cycling, IPC-9701B, defines test conditions for characterizing solder interconnect fatigue. The document specifies a maximum cycling ramp rate of 20 °C/minute to avoid thermal shock conditions that can accelerate failure modes other than low cycle fatigue in the bulk solder. This investigation compares the performance and failure mode of two ball grid array (BGA) packages tested with cyclic ramp rates characteristic of thermal cycling and thermal shock. The accelerated temperature profile is from −40 °C to 125 °C for thermal cycling and thermal shock, with the cycling ramp rates approximately three times faster with thermal shock and with equal dwell times in cycling and shock. The test matrix includes BGA packages fabricated with eutectic SnPb and near-eutectic SAC305 solder alloys as the performance baselines, and three high-performance solder alloys based on the SAC system but modified with additions of bismuth (Bi) and antimony (Sb). The failure data are reported as characteristic lifetime η (the number of cycles to achieve 63.2% failure), slope β, and cumulative 1% failure from a two-parameter Weibull analysis. Destructive cross-sectional analysis was used to characterize the solder microstructures before and after testing and the interconnect failure mode. The results show that the thermal cycling ramp rate and the thermal shock ramp rate produced the same results quantitatively and the same failure modes. These findings apply to the two BGA components in combination with the five solder alloys used in the study. For these test conditions, components, and solder alloys, the same results were achieved in thermal shock compared to thermal cycling with a 30% savings in test duration.
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