Optotherm Sentris, Electronics Failure Analysis System

Sentris pinpoints low-level infrared thermal emissions from IC faults such as short circuits and leakage current.

Faults Detected:
  • Semiconductor ESD related faults
  • Leakage current and hot spots
  • Resistive shorts between gate and drain
  • Shorts in mold compound of packaged devices
  • Latch-up sites
  • Shorts in metallization
  • Defective transistors and diodes
  • Oxide layer breakdown
  • SMD component leakage
Features and Capabilities:
  • High sensitivity lock-in thermography fault isolation
    • identify the x, y location of defects. Additionally, fault depth can also be determined by analyzing the phase angle (or time delay) between voltage application and resulting surface heating.
  • Defect depth analysis of stacked die
  • True temperature mapping using Emissivity Tables
    • method to accurately measurement temperature of the junction by compensating for pixel emissivity variations across the die surface.
  • Visual camera probing
  • Junction temperature measurement
  • Bare and packaged device analysis
  • Front and backside analysis
  • Detection of die attach problems
    • assess the heat flow to determine integrity die bond integrity.
  • Thermal resistance evaluation
    • provides accurate temperature measurements at thermal reference points, such as device packaging and heat sinks, to evaluate thermal resistance.