-
Chapter
Degradation Mechanisms in LED Packages
Lumen depreciation is one of the major failure modes in light-emitting diode (LED) systems. It originated from the degradation of the different components within the package, being the LED device or chip, the ...
-
Chapter
An Introduction to System Reliability for Solid-State Lighting
Solid-State Lighting (SSL) applications are slowly but gradually pervading into our daily life. An SSL system is composed of an light-emitting diode (LED) engine with a microelectronic driver(s) in a housing t...
-
Chapter
Solid-State Lighting Technology in a Nutshell
Solid-state lighting (SSL) is the most promising energy saving solution for future lighting applications. SSL is digital and multi-scaled in nature: SSL is based on the semiconductor-based LED and its packagin...
-
Chapter
Industrial Applications of Moisture-Related Reliability Problems
With the introduction of epoxies in the early 1980s, the microelectronic industry is faced with moisture-related reliability problems. Ever since the discovery of the so-called popcorn failure in microelectron...
-
Chapter
Advances in Delamination Modeling
Today’s microelectronic packages are typically composed of various materials, like silicon, metals, oxides, glues, and compounds (polymers). In Fig. 4.1, cross sections of a leadframe- and substrate-based pack...
