A Novel Evaluation Method of Thermal Transient Measurement by
Regularization
- Yi Zhang ,
- Anton Evgrafov ,
- Shuai Zhao
Abstract
In this paper we propose a new evaluation method for revealing the inner
structure information from the measurements of the thermal transient
response of semiconductor devices. In contrast with the conventional
methods based on the frequency domain deconvolution, the proposed method
casts the problem as a regularized least squares problem for an integral
equation directly in the time domain. The regularization is selected
based on the knowledge of certain physical quantities involved in the
measurement. We observe that the thermal time constant spectrum produced
by the proposed method tends to have a better capability of identifying
two adjacent parameters. With the benchmark of the true values of the
thermal networks, the structure function of the proposed method reduces
the relative error by an order of magnitude. A series of simulations
based on different parameters and structures verify the viability and
performance of the proposed method. A proof-of-concept experiment based
on a commercial power semiconductor device also validates the
effectiveness of the proposed method.