Research projects
Current projects
| Funder | Title / Task Professorship / Leadership role | Period |
|---|---|---|
| EU/BMBF |
iREL 4.0 (ECSEL Innovation Actions Calls 2019) Reliability for heterogeneous system integration for industry 4.0 Reliability and quality offensive of the European industry with regard to packaging. TU Chemnitz: Cooperation with Infineon and AMS regarding lifetime modeling, failure analysis and accelerated testing. Focus: Sintered silver and copper interconnects, encapsulation, failure analysis |
2020–2023 |
| BMBF |
KI-LiDAR Digital twin and neural networks for recalibration of Automotive Flash-LiDAR, field coupled simulation and validation. |
2019–2022 |
| ESF/SAB |
Landesinnovationspromotion Transient IR-optical & AI-based methods for inline failure analysis and quality control of microelectronic packages during manufacturing. |
2019–2022 |
| EU/BMBF |
HiPER (PENTA Call 3: Transport and Smart Mobility) Thermal management and reliability of GPU power-SiP for automotive HPC for autonomous driving, liquid cooling test bench, design, setup, test and simulation power-SiP, power management GPU mock-up control and test |
2019–2022 |
| SAB |
Transferzentrum "MoHeSys" Modular integration for thin & heterogeneous sensor systems, characterisation of heterogeneous thin film and multilayer systems and reliability evaluation, structure-property correlation of thin films |
2019–2020 |
| ESF |
Inlinetest (ICT-31-2017-IA) Thermographic methods for inline process monitoring in the production of power electronics: Focus MMIC (GaN-HPA), discretes |
2018–2021 |
| ESF |
Nachwuchsforschergruppe "e-Pisa" Energy-autonomous, wireless piezoelectric MEMS sensors and actuators in medical technology and industry 4.0; design, construction and test of AlN-based cantilever as fatigue platform for thin sensor layers under vibration load, functionality. |
2017–2020 |
Finished projects
| Funder | Title / Task Professorship / Leadership role | Period |
|---|---|---|
| ESF/SAB |
Landesinnovationspromotion Thermo-mechanical characterisation and reliability of flexible sensor systems, structure-property correlation in fatigue or disruption of thin Al and Cu PVD coatings by accelerated stress tests |
2016–2019 |
| SAB |
Leistungszentrum 'Functional integration for micro-/nanoelectronics' Thermo-mechanical characterization and reliability of 3D WL-SiP structures Partner and coordinator TU Chemnitz |
2016–2018 |
| BMBF |
Nanoproxi (KMU-innovativ: Nanotechnologie NanoChance): 'Development of a thermal delamination detection method' Development of a thermal pixel camera for in-situ detection of delamination. |
2015–2018 |
| DFG |
DFG Research Unit FOR1713, Sensorische Mikro- und Nanosysteme (SMINT, part II). Teilprojekt: "Ermüdungstest-plattform zur Zuverlässigkeitsbewertung von Nanokomponenten" Characterisation of materials on the micro- and nanoscale using MEMS loading devices. Sub-project manager |
2014–2017 |
| EU |
CarrICool (FP7-ICT-2013-11-small): "Modular Interposer architecture providing scalable heat removal, power delivery, and communication" Thermo-mechanical characterisation of 3D architectures in Si-interposer, e.g. TSVs and CuSn-based joining-technologies (soldering, TLPB) Workpackage Leader |
2014–2017 |
| VW-Stiftung |
Piezoresistive carbon nanotubes for condition monitoring and reliability consideration (Part II) Degradation of SWCNT-metal interfaces in simulation and experiment (in situ TEM actuation & DIC analysis). Sub-project manager |
2014–2016 |
| EU |
NanoTherm (FP7-ICT-2011.3.1-large): "Innovative Nano and Micro Technologies for Advanced Thermo and Mechanical Interfaces" Characterisation, modelling and failure analysis of porous sintered silver and Epoxy-Ag-Composites as die attach for power applications Workpackage Leader |
2012–2016 |
| EU |
SmartPower (FP7-ICT-2011-7-large): "Smart integration of GaN & SiC high power electronics for industrial and RF applications" 1: System approach to double-sided cooling of power converter using TEC and transient thermal buffering. 2: RF-Power-SiP under thermo-mechanical loading, characterisation and lifetime evaluation. Workpackage Leader |
2011–2016 |
| EU |
HyperConnect (FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6): "Functional joining of dissimilar materials using directed self-assembly of nanoparticles by capillary-bridging" Self-assembly and interdiffusion using nano-materials, deformation and failure mechanisms of sintered joints und thermos-mechanical loading Workpackage Leader |
2013–2015 |
| DFG | DFG Research Unit FOR1713: Sensorische Mikro- und Nanosysteme (SMINT, part I). Entwicklung und Charakterisierung einer MEMS-Belastungsvorrichtung Teilprojektleiter |
2011–2014 |
| VW-Stiftung |
Integration of dielectrophoretic deposited Carbon Nanotubes and their reliability in mechanical sensor systems (Part I) Structure-property correlation for SWCNTs during pullout testing from a metal matrix for smart systems application. Teilprojektleiter |
2011–2014 |
| EU |
eBRAINS (FP7-ICT-2009-5-large): "Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nano Sensor Systems" Characterisation of TSVs and CuSn Joints for 3D-SiP technologies. High cycle fatigue of thin Al BEOL layers under isothermal vibration loading |
2010–2014 |
| BMBF |
Nanett (Phase II): "Kompetenznetzwerk für Nanosystemintegration - Materialintegrierte Sensorik basierend auf Nanoeffekten" Materialcharakterisierung, Simulation und Test eines Polymer-verkapselten piezo-resistiven Bewegungssensors aus PVDF. Partner |
2012–2014 |
| BMBF |
Nanett (Phase I): "Kompetenznetzwerk für Nanosystemintegration - Materialintegrierte Sensorik basierend auf Nanoeffekten" Simulation und Charakterisierung des Aufrollverhaltens von nanoskaligen TiCr Smart Tubes während der Prozessierung. Partner |
2009–2012 |
