A general Weibull model for reliability analysis under different failure Criteria-application on anisotropic conductive adhesive joining technology

In this paper, a generic four-parameter model has been developed and applied to the anisotropic conductive adhesive (ACA) flip-chip joining technology for electronics packaging applications. The model can also be used to predict any minimum failure cycles if the maximum acceptable failure criterion (in this case, a preset electrical resistance value) is set. The original reliability testing from which the test data was obtained was carried out on flip-chip anisotropically conductive adhesive joints on an FR-4 substrate. In the study, nine types of ACA and one nonconductive film (NCF) were used. In total, nearly 1000 single joints were subjected to reliability tests in terms of temperature cycling between -40/spl deg/C and 125/spl deg/C with a dwell time of 15 min and a ramp rate of 110/spl deg/C/min. The reliability was characterized by single contact resistance measured using the four-probe method during temperature cycling testing up to 3000 cycles. A single Weibull model is used for two failure definitions defined as larger than 50 m/spl Omega/ and larger than 100 m/spl Omega/ respectively using the in situ electrical resistance measurement technique. The failure criteria are incorporated into this Weibull model. This paper shows the flexibility and usefulness of Weibull distribution in this type of applications.