Predic­tion of Elec­tronics Life­time

Elec­tronics life­time is still a hot topic in re­search. In the auto­mo­tive industry e.g. we have detailed testing and vali­dating proce­dures for ensuring a life­time of 8.000 hours for oper­a­tion. Mean­while, a demand for 120.000 hours arose espe­cially in the field of power elec­tronics for inverters. We tackle the problem of missing testing and vali­dating norms for guar­an­teeing the new chal­lenging life­time demands by oper­ating elec­tronics under condi­tions of accel­er­ated aging while moni­toring the its perfor­mance. With statis­tical and phys­ical analysis of failure and degra­da­tion mech­a­nisms we will derive design and model improve­ments.