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Engineering Materials and Reliability
The Center for Engineering Materials and Reliability (CEMAR) strives to become a technical platform to serve the Pearl River Delta industries, as well as an education center for innovative and creative engineers, and as a bridge between industries, universities and research institutions.
Areas of Focus:
The Center focuses on the development characterization and analysis of the structural reliability of new materials for IC packaging and other applications. Some of the projects that have been launched include:
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Development of an impact machine for single solder ball impact strength of wafer level package
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 Materials characterization and failure analysis for microelectronics packaging and assembly
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 High performance plastic encapsulated IC packaging techniques
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 Development of new flux for lead-free flip-chip packages
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 PBA package design and assembly
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 Study of the relationship between microstructure-thermal and mechanical properties of PBGA substrate
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Study of the relationships between IC package structure-materials selection-reliability using Finite Element Analysis
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 Reliability of flip chip package using lead free solder and "green" molding compound
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 Morphology and mechanical property relationships of weathered PVC pipes
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 High impact strength polymer nanocomposites with natural nanotubes
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 Toughened thermal plastic nanocomposites based on PP and nano-CaCO3 particles
Major R&D Facilities:
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 Differential Scanning Calorimetry
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 Thermal Mechanical Analysis
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 Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
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 Thermogravimetric Analysis
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 Rheometer
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 TGA-FTIR Analysis
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 Solder Ball Shear, Pull and Impact Tester
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 Haake Mixer
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 Single- and Twin-screw extruder
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 Vacuum Hot-Press
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 Computer Simulation Facilities
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 Universal Testing Machine
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Scanning Electron Microscopy
Fourie Transformation Infra-red Spectrometer (FTIR)
Scanning Electron Microscope
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Jingshen Wu
from Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, HKUST

Contact:
Add: N303BSoftware Building, Nansha IT Park, Guangzhou
Tel: (86) 20 3468 5641
Fax: (86) 20 3468 5640
E-mail: cemar@ust.hk