Micro Bending Test on Double Cantilever Beams: A specimen-centred approach to accurate determination of the visco-plastic properties of Sintered Silver for Power Electronics applications

The increased attention for sintered silver as die attach attracts also interest in its reliability assessment. Since the porous joint material shows rate-dependent behaviour at elevated temperature, its visco-plastic behaviour needs to be quantified. Though tensile tests are frequently used for that task is still a challenge to manufacture homogeneous specimens large enough to be safely handled and tensile tested. In this paper the we have...