QUALITY IN ELECTRONICS
cod. 1002738

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Elettronica (ING-INF/01)
Field
Ingegneria elettronica
Type of training activity
Characterising
72 hours
of face-to-face activities
9 credits
hub:
course unit
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Learning objectives

This module aims at giving to the student the main instruments to deal with problems concerning product and process quality improvement with particular attention to reliability of electronic devices and systems.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

 Reliability:<br />
- basic descriptive statistics and reliability concepts<br />
- methods to predict and assure reliability <br />
- the reliability of electronic systems<br />
- the reliability of electronic devices<br />
- techniques to improve reliability<br />
- the reliability tests<br />
- accelereted testing theory<br />
Failure Analysis Techniques:<br />
- electrical tests<br />
- X-radiography<br />
- microcopes (SEM TEM FIB SAM)<br />
- sample preparation<br />
Physics of failure mechanisms of semiconductore devices <br />
Statistical Quality Control:<br />
- process control techniques<br />
- Control charts

Full programme

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Bibliography

Suggested textbooks<br />
P. D. T. O'Connor, Practical Reliability Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1992<br />
P.A. Tobias, D. Trindade, Applied Reliability, Van Nostrand Reinholds, 1986<br />
D.C. Montgomery, Controllo statistico della qualita', McGraw-Hill, 2000<br />
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Recommended readings<br />
G. Mattana, Qualità, Affidabilità, Certificazione, Franco Angeli, 1988.<br />
J.C.Cluley, Electronic Equipment Reliability, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1981<br />
Mitra, Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1993<br />
E. Pollino (ed.), Microelectronic Reliability, Vol. II, Artech House, Norwood, 1989<br />
K. Ishikawa, Guida al Controllo Qualità, Franco Angeli, 1990.

Teaching methods

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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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