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3D PLUS has more than 210,000 microelectronics components in space, and more than 25 years of flight heritage with no reported failure. Our Flight Heritage is expanding continuously with products launched in Space every month in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, for deep space exploration missions, for satellite constellation fleets, and for governmental missions in Europe, America, and Asia. Our Flagship missions include Mars 2020, Mars Science Laboratory, Rosetta, New Horizons, Juno, OneWeb, AlphaSat, Sentinel, Ariane 5, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, Insight, and many more.
3D PLUS technology has the unique capability to stack n-High any heterogeneous active devices in a single highly miniaturized package. Because of the very high miniaturization achieved, the power dissipation density increases in the stack in the same proportion than its overall volume decreases.
As the electrical performances and the reliability of the products are directly related to the junction temperature of the embedded semiconductor devices, the thermal behavior and characteristics of each 3D PLUS stack are carefully designed, simulated and tested during the product development flow. When necessary, specific cooling techniques are included in the stacks in order to maintain the junction temperature below its maximum operational limit.
Based on each stack mechanical characteristics and materials, the thermal characteristics are first simulated thanks to proprietary software for 3D stack, and the results are checked/verified with real life measurements. The resulting thermal resistance is given for each thermal dissipation path in a steady-state mode.
TJ is the Junction Temperature of the semiconductor device mounted in the module. The Junction is the active Area of the semiconductor device.
Rth(JA) (Thermal resistance Junction to Ambient) is specified for the worst case condition and where “Ambient” is defined as the temperature at the sides of the module (Top, Bottom or sides).
Rth-B) (Thermal resistance Junction to Board) is specified for the worst case condition and where “Board” is defined as the temperature at the bottom of the leads in contact with the PWB board. In that case, the only transfer mode considered is conduction.
Remark:
In a space environment, there is no convection and the thermal radiation mode is negligible compare to the thermal conduction mode. This is why only conduction mode is considered for Space applications. Thermal models are available on demand for standards products. Specific thermal simulations are performed for SIP stacks in order to support easy integration on customers’ PWBs.
