T3Ster®
[tri-ster], the thermal transient tester
of MicReD is a state-of-the-art, scalable
and versatile thermal testing station.
Its high precision hardware and
advanced software provides the
best thermal testing solution available
worldwide.
T3Ster® is aimed at dynamic thermal characterization of packaged semiconductor
devices (diodes, BJT-s, J-FET-s and MOSFET-s, thyristors, power
LED-s), MCM-s and other electrical or MEMS components. With
dedicated fixtures and software, characterization of PWB-s and
other substrates or thermal interface materials and/or cooling
assemblies is also possible. More
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ACCURACY,
RELIABILITY, VERSATILITY
Scalable equipment, hardware
and software add-on
options
Fixtures
for special measurements such as thermal interface
material (TIM) or characterization, effective board
thermal conductivity measurement
JEDEC
compliant thermal resistance measurements and
dynamic characterization
Heat-flow path details
Measurement control even from your
notebook computer
T3Ster® carries out measurements in real time ("on the fly"). This
technique combined with precision hardware results in capturing very
accurate, noise-free real thermal transient curves at high time resolution
(1 µsec).
Unlike other equipment, T3Ster®
really measures the thermal impedance curves rather than artificially
composing them from individual responses given to heat-pulses. Compared
to other similar equipment, in most parameters T3Ster®
provides the best performance.
With the unique evaluation technology of MicReD the T3Ster®
software automatically derives the descriptive
functions from the thermal transient response of the packaged
semiconductor device. These include: the
time-constant spectrum, the pulse thermal
resistance diagrams, the
complex loci of the measured responses, the integral
structure function and the differential
structure function.
Structure functions
allow locating failures
in the junction-to-ambient heat-flow path like die
attach voids, soldering defects,
disintegrity of cooling assemblies,
etc. in a non-destructive way.
