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Accelerated lifetime test for isolated components in linear drivers of high-voltage LED system

  • Bo Sun
  • , Sau Wee Koh
  • , Cadmus Yuan
  • , Xuejun Fan
  • , Guoqi Zhang
  • Delft University of Technology
  • State Key Laboratory of Solid-State Lighting
  • State Key Laboratory of Solid State Lighting (Changzhou Base)
  • CAS - Institute of Semiconductors
  • Lamar University

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Abstract

This paper proposes an isolated component accelerated lifetime testing of high-voltage SSL driver. In this method, the most critical component(s) will be isolated from the rest, and critical stress will be applied to these components to estimate the lifetime. Although circuit modification is unavoidable, this testing method can minimize failure interactions between components and testing duration for the system. Thus, compared to the conventional accelerated testing method, this method could achieve shorter test duration. In the configuration of high-voltage LED, the electrolytic capacitors have been selected from the linear driver configuration. As one of most significant failure mechanisms, the effects of high temperature degradation of electrolytic capacitors to the entire system were investigated in this test. To quantify these effects, the changes in luminous flux and power consumption over time were measured. By analysis of all these output data, the relationship between the system's outputs and temperature of electrolytic capacitor can be found. For the high-voltage LED system, this relationship is a required condition for the accurate system reliability prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems, EuroSimE 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781467361385
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems, EuroSimE 2013 - Wroclaw, Poland
Duration: 14 Apr 201317 Apr 2013

Publication series

Name2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems, EuroSimE 2013

Conference

Conference2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems, EuroSimE 2013
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWroclaw
Period14/04/1317/04/13

Keywords

  • Accelerated lifetime test
  • Solid State Lighting
  • electrolytic capacitor
  • high-voltage LED
  • linear driver

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