Kejun Ma

Multi-chip integrated high-power white LED device on the multi-layer ceramic substrate

In order to solve the thermal issue and improve the thermal resistance of LED, a device with multi-chip packaged on multi-layer composite ceramic substrate is successfully packaged. The top layer of the substrate is low temperature co-fire ceramic (LTCC), while the base layer is aluminum nitride (AINx) ceramic. 18 chips(one watt) are used in the device, and all of them are simultaneously packaged on a composite ceramic substrate which is 55 mm in length and 20 mm in width. The 18 chips are designed into two rows, and three chips in series for six parallels. At the same time the same chips are packaged on aluminum (Al) substrate and alumina (AlOx) substrate. After wire bonding photoelectric parameters of the three package modules are tested, the results show that the properties of the AINx-based package has the best performances, the thermal resistance of the device is far smaller than the other devices packed on the Al substrate and the AlOx substrate. After phosphor coatings the AINx-based multi-layer ceramic substrate package has 896.1 lm (43.4 lm/W) loading 350 milliampere (mA) to each chip, and has 1081.3 lm (35.4 lm/W) loading 500 mA. The multi-chip module has little light degradation adding 500 mA to each chip after working in the room temperature for one afternoon. At last the module is simulated by ANSYS software, the highest junction temperature of the chips in the module is about 70.8degC when 1.8 watts electric power is loaded to each chip, this temperature is far lower than 125degC which will damage the chip, and he highest simulation temperature of the aluminum heat slug is about 39.3degC. The temperature of the aluminum heat slug is about 41.0degC which is tested by thermocouple in the experiments, and it is closely to the simulation temperature 39.3degC. At last the relationship between pn-junction temperature and thermal conductivity coefficient of the silver (Ag) paste , the relationship between pn-junction temperatures and convection coefficient have been researched, the results show that the pn-junction temperature can be decreased a lot while increase the thermal conductivity coefficient of the adhesive layer or increase the convection coefficient a little.