Testing Thermal Interface Material (TIM) Analysis

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Overview

This webinar will provide an introduction to the most commonly used Thermal Interface Material (TIM) types and their corresponding testing techniques. Basic TIM properties such as bulk or effective thermal conductivity, interfacial thermal resistance and bond line thickness will be explained. At the beginning, an overview of the existing industrial and experimental test methods aimed at measuring the thermal conductivity of these materials. The ASTM D-5470 steady state TIM testing standard will be explained and evaluated. In the second part of the presentation newly developed test setups will be shown which mean an enhancement to the existing standard, including a possible in-situ solution. These new approaches will be explained in detail and measurement results will be shown. In the final part of the presentation the presenter will discuss the importance of the evaluation of long term reliability of these materials beside the highly precise measurement of their thermal conductivity.

What You Will Learn

  • The importance of the proper selection of thermal interface materials in an electric system
  • The most important properties describing the performance of a TIM materials
  • Benefits and drawbacks of commonly used TIM testing techniques including the ASTM D-5470 standard
  • Some new ways of improvements of the existing TIM testing techniques
  • An in-situ TIM testing solution
  • A possible definition of the failure criteria for the degradation of thermal interface materials

About the Presenter

Presenter Image Andras Vass-Varnai

Andras Vass-Varnai obtained his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 2007 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He works as a technical marketing engineer at the MicReD Division at Mentor Graphics since. Beside his work he is also a correspondent Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Budapest. His main topics of interest include thermal management of electric systems, advanced applications of thermal transient testing, characterization of TIM materials and high power semiconductor devices.

Who Should Attend

  • TIM manufacturers and end-users
  • System designers of electronic systems
  • Thermal engineers
  • Engineers interested in reliability issues

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What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
  • Mozilla Firefox 2
  • Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x or later
  • Netscape 7.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 8
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

  • Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
  • 128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

  • Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
  • Safari 2.x
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

  • Safari 1.x, 2.x
  • Firefox 1.x
  • Mozilla 1.x
  • Netscape 7.x or later
  • Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

  • PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • 128MB of RAM

Linux:

  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
  • Mozilla 1.7.x
  • SeaMonkey 1.0.5
  • Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

  • Mozilla 1.7
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

  • Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps

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