Provides background and problem-solving examples applicable to package designers, package users, reliability engineers, and those who measure and evaluate the integrity of packages to apply this knowledge to solving their specific challenges. Attempts to answer the following questions: how do you define the goodness of the seal? how is that seal measured? how does the integrity of the seal effect circuit reliability? Includes more than 100 application-specific problems and their solutions.
Contents
Gas Kinetics -- Viscous and Molecular Conductance of Gases -- The Flow of Gases -- The Flow of Gases into Sealed Packages -- Water in Sealed Packages -- Understanding Helium Fine Leak Testing in Accordance with Method 1014, MIL-STD-883 -- Fine Leak Measurements Using a Helium Leak Detector -- Gross Leaks -- The Permeation of Gases Through Solids -- Residual Gas Analysis (RGA) -- Appendix -- Acknowledgment -- Index.