Electronics Use in Harsh Environments

Challenges and Perspectives

Rajan Ambat, Nando Kaminski, Bálint Medgyes

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443222269
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Electronics Use in Harsh Environments: Challenges and Perspectives provides a state-of-the-art review on environmental reliability issues in electronics in different technological applications due to exposure in harsh environments. This is an important issue today in relation to both high (power electronics) and low voltage applications as well as in connection with their use in various industrial sectors such as wind energy, solar, automotive, transport, and consumer electronic sectors. The book takes an application-based approach and covers environmental reliability studies in power electronics systems and components. Chapters focus on current applications, environmental reliability issues, and remedial measures that are available.Relevant issues related to electronic processing/material use and corrosion issues, failure mechanisms due to high voltage, and thermal incidents caused by corrosion issues are also discussed in detail. The book will be a valuable reference source for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, and engineers, as well as corrosion specialists and all those involved in electronic reliability studies and electrification issues in transport, consumer goods and energy sectors. - Focuses on humidity and corrosion-induced failures in electronic applications - Discusses important component level problems such as IGBTs, integrated circuits, mechanistic aspects, and material and process related issues - Covers this highly interdisciplinary field, with contributions from authors in different scientific backgrounds such as electronics, materials, and corrosion

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• 1. General introduction to environmental effects on electronics and their importance today
• 2. Power electronics in harsh environments - Lifetime estimation by accelerated testing
• 3. Humidity in power converters of wind turbines: Field conditions and their effect on reliability
• 4. Humidity induced failure mechanisms especially under high voltage load
• 5. PCBA material and process cleanliness as a prerequisite for humidity robustness: Comparison of test methods and guidelines
• 6. Electrochemical migration in electronics applications—Fundamentals, testing techniques, modeling approaches
• 7. Influence of harmful gases on corrosion in power electronics
• 8. Corrosion of electronics due to outgassing of iodine and phosphorous compounds
• 9. Corrosion mechanisms leading to thermal events in low voltage electronics
• Index