Evaluating packaging effectiveness in power electronics

The ever-increasing importance of packaging in power electronics emerges the necessity of looking both for new packaging solutions and for a packaging approach that deals with packaging terms in the right and systematic way thus preventing using loose terms and meanings as it is seen at present. From the packaging effectiveness viewpoint, packaging technologies and their implementations are mostly qualitatively described and verified, making it complex to evaluate and compare with each other. In this contribution, a new concept establishing and clearly defining the main packaging terms is introduced. A mathematical model that endeavors to evaluate and quantify specific packaging solution is presented and illustrated on the example of several practical sub-circuits.