Electrical Breakdown of Thermal Spray Alumina Ceramic Applied to AlSiC Baseplates Used in Power Module Packaging

Thermal spray coatings offer new alternatives in the production of electronic power modules that use alumina ceramic as an isolation layer. Current processes use direct bond copper (DBC) soldered to a nickel plated copper heat spreader. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch exists betw...

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Main Author: Mossor, Charles W.
Other Authors: Electrical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33543
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-061299-234625/