Gas and Oil Well Applications: Projects

CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Consortium
One of the major efforts of the CALCE Center is the CALCE Electronic Products and Systems Consortium, a successful international industry-government-academic partnership, sponsored by over 100 major international organizations from all sectors of the electronics industry. Consortium research projects are performed on an annual basis and are developed in collaboration with the Consortium members. For more information or to access a complete list of current projects click here. Recent Consortium projects of particular interest to the gas and oil well industries are the following:

2004 Consortium Research Projects

• Logistics and Cost Analysis for Pb-free Implementation
• Intermetallic-Related Embrittlement of Pb-free Solder Die Attach
• Reliability Capability Assessment for Contractors and Vendors
• Development of Hybrid-Level Screening Methodology
• Solder Joint Reliability with FBGA
• PoF-Based Wire Lift-off Models for Aluminum Wedge Bonds
• Virtual Qualification of Subsystems at High Temperatures

2003 Consortium Research Projects

• Calibration of Virtual Qualification Model for Leaded Packages with Lead-free Solder Materials
• Thermal Management Solutions for Low Volume Complex Electronic Systems
• Virtual Qualification of Components Under High G Loads
• Improved Simulation of Vibration Induced Failures
• High Temperature Solder Selection for Surface Mount Applications

2002 Consortium Research Projects

• Embedded Passive Reliability and Tradeoff Analysis.
• Virtual Qualification of Power Components and Modules.
• Virtual Qualification of Components Under High G Loads.
• Thermal Management Solutions for Low Volume Complex Electronic Systems LVCES.
• Modeling High Temperature Failures in Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits.
• Evaluation of Conformal Coatings on Advanced PEM Device and Package Technologies.
• Interconnect Durability Models for Novel Interconnects and Update of Failure Assessment Software.

2001 Consortium Research Projects 

• Physics of Failure based Reliability Assessment of Printed Circuit Boards used for Permanent Downhole Monitoring of Oil Wells (CALCE - Schlumberger Project)
• Investigation of Electrical Parameter Aging due to Environmental Stresses.
  Electronics Technology Insertion into Low Volume Complex Electronics Systems (LVCES).
• Probabilistic Simulation in the Virtual Qualification Process.
• Implementing the Failure Free Operating Period Process.
• Design for Reliability of a High Temperature Automotive Electronic Module.
• Vibration Fatigue Model for BGAs.
• Advanced Cooling concepts for 100 W/cm?and Higher Heat Removal.
• Optimization of Stress Profiles for Accelerated Testing.

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