Direct bonded aluminum on aluminum nitride substrates via a transient liquid phase and its application

Conference: CIPS 2010 - 6th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems
03/16/2010 - 03/18/2010 at Nuremberg, Germany

Proceedings: CIPS 2010

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Kuromitsu, Yoshirou; Nagatomo, Yoshiyuki; Tonomura, Hiroshi; Akiyama, Kazuhiro (Central Research Institute, Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Naka, Ibaraki 311-0102, Japan)
Montesa, Christine Marie; Shibata, Naoya; Ikuhara, Yuichi (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan)

Abstract:
A new bonding process has been developed for producing direct bonded aluminum (DBA) substrates using aluminum nitride (AlN). A transient eutectic liquid phase forms in aluminum-X (X = silicon, germanium, silver, or copper) systems at the interface between the aluminum foil and the AlN substrate. The aluminum-X liquid phase transiently contacts the AlN substrate prior to isothermal solidification by diffusion of the element X into the aluminum foil. We prepared DBA substrates using this process and demonstrated that they are highly stable after thermal cycling testing. Furthermore, we used this method to simultaneously bond and fabricate DBA substrates with an aluminum-alloy base plate. We confirmed that this new process for fabricating DBA substrates with an aluminum-alloy base plate has the potential to be cost-effective and to be applied to produce high-reliability, high-power modules used under conditions of severe thermal stress.