Seminar:
Climatic Reliability of Electronics –
Challenges and Perspectives

Skrevet den af Teknologisk Videndeling

– The 10th International Seminar

3-4 April 2025

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Meeting Center – Meeting room M1
Anker Engelunds Vej 1
2800 Kgs. Lyngby
Denmark

Registration deadline: 27 March 2025

 

About the seminar

Exposure environment caused corrosion failures are dominant today for Power Electronics and other electronic systems due to harsh application environments.

We are organizing this yearly seminar for the last 10 years consecutively with the goal of providing a common platform for discussing various aspects of this multidisciplinary topic with involvement of relevant stakeholders. Every year this seminar attracted many from universities, research institutions, and industries and was a great success with participants from all over the world.

Due to the continued interest and relevance of topic today because of the extensive use of power electronics and other electronics equipment as integral part in many applications such as renewable energy, transportation, and automotive electrification under harsh climatic conditions, we are organizing 10th version of this seminar on 3-4 April 2025.

Topics and program

Broadly, seminar will address topics related to electronics and climatic exposure related issues such as corrosion failure mechanisms, material-design-process aspects leading to corrosion effects, intrinsic and extrinsic preventive strategies, and technological sector wise issues. Aim is to bring together electronics/electrical and material/corrosion experts both from academia and industries to tackle various issues.

Day 1 - Thursday 3 April
08:30 - 09:00
Registration and breakfast
09:00 - 09:35
Intro to 10th seminar and challenges related to climate effects on electronics

Rajan Ambat, Center for Electronic Corrosion, Technical University of Denmark
09:35 - 10:00
Solder Mask as a Reliable Insulation Layer on Printed Circuit Boards – Different Layouts and Materials under Humidity and High Voltage

Michael Vogt, University of Bremen, Germany
10:00 - 10:10
Discussion time
10:10 - 10:35
Electrochemical investigation of thin-film encapsulation for electronic devices

Michael Schneider, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
10:35 - 10:45
Discussion time
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break and networking
11:15 - 11:40
Influence of airborne particulate contamination on electronic hardware reliability

Prabjit Singh, USA
11:40 - 11:50
Discussion time
11:50 - 12:15
Effect of halide contamination on the corrosion behavior of materials for microelectronic applications

Florian Georges, INSA Lyon, France
12:15 - 12:25
Discussion time
12:25 - 13:45
Lunch
13:45 - 14:10
A New Approach to Corrosion Detection and Analysis for Future Mobility

Seungho Ahn, Hyundai R&D, South Korea
14:10 - 14:20
Discussion time
14:20 - 14:45
PCBA Reliability and Test for EV Applications – High-voltage PCBs and Aspects of Insulation Coordination

Lothar Henneken , Bosch Automotive Electronics, Germany
14:45 - 14:55
Discussion time
14:55 - 15:30
Coffee break and networking
15: 30 - 15:55
Role condensed water film morphology on corrosion failure modes in electronics

Anish Rao Lakkaraju/Jyothsna Rao, CELCORR, DTU, Denmark
15:55 - 16:05
Discussion time
16:05 - 16:30
Tailored Condensation Robustness Test for Pump with Electronics

John Jacobsen & Preben Jakobsen, Grundfos, Denmark
16.40 - 16:50
Summary of Day 1
17:00 - 17:15
Boarding bus for seminar dinner

Day 2 - Friday 4 April 2025
08:00 - 08:30
Arrival and breakfast
08:30 - 08:55
A quantitative evaluation of a conformal coating’s capability to protect Printed Circuit Board assemblies from condensation

Phil Kinner, MacDermidAlpha, United Kingdom
08:55 - 09:05
Discussion time
09:05 - 09:30
Phasing Out PFAS: BioHalo's Biobased Polymer Solution

Alberto De Maria, BioHalo, Denmark.
09:30 - 09:40
Discussion time
09:40 - 10:05
Climatic Reliability Assessment of Materials and Processes

Mike Bixenman, Magnalytix, USA
10:05 - 10:15
Discussion time
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break and networking
10:45 - 11:10
Corrosion related market issues in Hearing Aids

Helene Conseil-Gudla and Jakob Lautitz Hansen, Demant A/S, Denmark
11:10 - 11:20
Discussion time
11:20 - 11:45
Design for Cleaning

Vladimír Sítko, PBT Works, Czech Republic
11:45 - 11:55
Discussion time
11:55 - 13:10
Lunch time
13:10:30 - 13:35
Epoxy mold compounds for chips and some fails due to halide contamination

Lutz Muller, Bosch Automotive Electronics, Germany
13:35 - 13:45
Dicussion time
13:45 - 14:10
Effect of heating on dendritic corrosion growth in copper-alumina isolation trenches

Juuso Rautio, LUT University, Finland
14:10 - 14:20
Discussion time
14:20 - 14:40
Coffee break and networking
14:40 - 15:05
Some elaboration on electrochemical migration failure mechanism, shorting, and electrical discharge

Jyothsna Rao/Feng Li, CELCORR, DTU, Denmark
15:05 - 15:15
Discussion time
15:15 - 15:40
Overview of recent evolutions in ultrathin PFAS free coatings for electronics protections

Alessio Quadrelli, Europlasma, Belgium
15:40 - 15:50
Discussion time
15:50 - 16:00
Conclusion of seminar and closing remark

Organizers

Professor Rajan Ambat, Center for Electronic Corrosion (CELCORR), Technical University of Denmark
Dr. Kapil Kumar Gupta, Center for Electronic Corrosion (CELCORR), Technical University of Denmark

 

 

 

Attendance fee

  • 6,100 DDK for members of Teknologisk Videndeling, CreCon, DMN, EFC or ECPE
  • 6,700 DDK for non-members

All prices are excluded of Danish VAT.
The fee covers conference materials, lunch, coffee and conference dinner.

Registration

 

Register HERE

Binding registration
Registration is binding, however substitutions are accepted at any time. Please let us know by mail: teknologiskvidendeling@construct.dtu.dk

Conference dinner 3 April 2025
The seminar dinner will be held 3 April at 18:00 at The Odd Fellow Palace.


Hotels near DTU

– Four Points Flex by Sheraton Lyngby  – approx. 500 meters from DTU
– Gentofte Hotel – approx. 6 kilometers from DTU
– Hotel Fortunen – approx. 3 kilometers from DTU
– Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel & Konference – approx. 6 kilometers from DTU

Hotels near Nørreport station in Copenhagen
From Nørreport Station in Copenhagen, bus 150S (towards Kokkedal St.) provides a direct route to DTU. The bus journey from Nørreport Station to DTU (stop: Rævehøjvej) takes approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 5-minute walk to DTU from the bus stop.
– Ibsens Hotel (about a 6 minutes walk to Nørreport station, then approx. 30 minutes by bus to DTU)
– Hotel Kong Arthur (about a 6 minutes walk to Nørreport station, then approx. 30 minutes by bus to DTU)

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(Picture from the seminar in March 2024)