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Prognostics Approach For Power Mosfet Under Thermal-Stress Aging

Published by Dashlink | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: February 07, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-03-31
The prognostic technique for a power MOSFET presented in this paper is based on accelerated aging of MOSFET IRF520Npbf in a TO-220 package. The methodology utilizes thermal and power cycling to accelerate the life of the devices. The major failure mechanism for the stress conditions is die attachment degradation, typical for discrete devices with lead free solder die attachment. It has been determined that die attach degradation results in an increase in ON-state resistance due to its dependence on junction temperature. Increasing resistance, thus, can be used as a precursor of failure for the die-attach failure mechanism under thermal stress. A feature based on normalized ON-resistance is computed from in-situ measurements of the electro-thermal response. An Extended Kalman filter is used as a model-based prognostics techniques based on the Bayesian tracking framework.

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