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Effect of current crowding on void propagation at the interface between intermetallic compound and solder in flip chip solder joints

  • Lingyun Zhang*
  • , Shengquan Ou
  • , Joanne Huang
  • , K. N. Tu
  • , Stephen Gee
  • , Luu Nguyen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose a kinetic model to describe a pancake-type void propagation in flip chip solder joints due to current crowding in electromigration. The divergence of the vacancy fluxes at the interface between the solder and Cu6Sn5 leads to void formation and propagation along the interface between them. Based on the continuity condition, the void growth velocity is calculated. The theoretical calculations are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
Original languageEnglish
Article number012106
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume88
Issue number1
Online published4 Jan 2006
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2006
Externally publishedYes

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