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Capacitors in Temperature-Humidity-Bias
Conditions
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<center><i>2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT</i>

<br><h2>Failure Prognostics of Multilayer Ceramic
Capacitors in Temperature-Humidity-Bias
Conditions</h2>
<br><br><b>Jie Gu,<i> Member, IEEE</i></b><br><b>Michael H. Azarian,<i> Member, IEEE</i></b><br><b>Michael G. Pecht,<i> Fellow, IEEE</i></b><br>
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE)<br>University of
Maryland<br>College Park, MD 20742, USA<br><br>


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<b>Abstract:</b>

<p>This paper presents a prognostics approach which
detects the performance degradation of multilayer ceramic
capacitors under temperature-humidity-bias conditions, and
then predicts remaining useful life. In the tests, three
performance parameters (capacitance, dissipation factor and
insulation resistance) were monitored in-situ. By comparing the
predicted results with the experimental results, the prognostics
approach provided advanced warning of failures for capacitors
and predicted their remaining useful life.
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<p><b>Index Terms:</b> failure prognostics, health monitoring,
multilayer ceramic capacitor</p>


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