TY - CHAP A1 - Schlal, Sebastian A1 - Wicke, Markus A1 - Zahner, Thomas A1 - Lang, Kurt-Jürgen T1 - Evaluation of thermal solder joint quality and thermal performance of PCBs by using standard measurement equipment T2 - 20th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, 24-26 Sept. 2014, Greenwich, UK N2 - By using more powerful LEDs a good thermal management is becoming more and more important. Here usually the thermal interconnects have to be in focus. Therefore a simple and rapid measurement method for the thermal check of the solder joint in a high volume production is necessary. A standard thermal resistance measurement is very time consuming due to the calibration of each device. By using thermal characterized reference devices it is possible to skip the time consuming part. Furthermore, a simple methodology for evaluating the thermal performance of the various metal core PCB (MCPCB) materials and construction is required during development. In this paper we will present how we successfully demonstrated that this new method offers an opportunity to determine the thermal performance of a high power QFN LED on different types of isolated metal substrate (IMS) and with a standard SMU [1] (source measurement units). KW - Electrical resistance measurement KW - Light emitting diodes KW - Semiconductor device measurement KW - Soldering KW - standards KW - Thermal resistance Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/THERMINIC.2014.6972522 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - IEEE ER -