Micromechanical testing and simulation

Renewable energies, electromobility or automated industrial technology pose new challenges for electronic components as they place increasing demands on reliability and operate under more difficult conditions. The right choice of material as well as its characteristics regarding material and fatigue behavior play an essential role in this context.

For this assessment, relevant and load-related material properties must be identified to enable reliable component design. To this end, process- and application-related operating simulations of critical components are included in the development process to better understand potential failure modes.

We support our partners in:

• the thermomechanical material characterization of materials for microelectronics and power electronics
• the parameter identification for extended material models using finite element method
• parameter identification for failure models/ damage hypotheses
• sub-modelling of specific failure modes (e.g. material fatigue, fracture mechanics)
• the comparison of FEM simulation with information from high-resolution failure diagnostics
• the identification of potential failure mechanisms and the development of lifetime prediction concepts

We offer our customers individually adapted solutions for micromechanical material characterization under real-load operating conditions. For this purpose, we combine experimental methods of macro- and micromechanical material characterization with numerical simulation approaches as well as techniques of high-resolution defect localization and defect analysis. This enables an improved understanding of the material interaction under operating conditions as well as the development of degradation mechanisms. Together with our customers, we develop adapted test procedures and support them in simulation approaches to map physically based failure modes.