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Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Applied sciences; Advanced electronic packaging; Advanced thin films; Ceramics; Extreme environment electronics; LTCC; Reliability of electronics
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Environmental Reliability Of Thin Film Sealing On Thick Film Ltcc, Charles R. Bourland
Environmental Reliability Of Thin Film Sealing On Thick Film Ltcc, Charles R. Bourland
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
As electronic components and systems become more intricate and expand into new realms of use case scenarios, new materials systems must be explored. With new systems comes the balancing acts of cost and reliability. Presented here is a thesis that explores a new hybrid-electronics packaging system using low temperature co-fired ceramics, referred to as LTCC. An LTCC system was designed to explore the environmental reliability of numerous thick film LTCC features and parameters. A key element was to explore how a thin film metallization stack up used to cap or seal underlying thick film structures would decrease environmental susceptibility while …