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Electronics Use in Harsh Environments

Challenges and Perspectives

  • 1st Edition - May 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Rajan Ambat, Nando Kaminski, Bálint Medgyes
  • Language: English

Electronics Use in Harsh Environments: Challenges and Perspectives provides a state-of-the-art review on environmental reliability issues in electronics in different technolog… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers involved in electronic reliability issues, materials scientists, corrosion experts, electrical and mechanical engineers, postgraduate students, and those working in electrification issues in the transport and energy sectors

Table of contents

1. Basic introduction to environmental effects on electronics and important issues today

2. Power Electronics in harsh environments – Lifetime estimation by accelerated testing

3. Humidity in power converters of wind turbines: field conditions and effect on reliability

4. Humidity induced failure mechanisms especially under high voltage load

5. PCBA material and process cleanliness as a pre-requisite for humidity robustness: comparison of test methods and guidelines

6. Electrochemical Migration in Electronics Applications

7. Influence of corrosive gases on corrosion in power electronics

8. Corrosion of electronics due to outgassing of iodine and phosphorous compounds from polymers

9. Corrosion mechanisms leading to thermal events in low voltage electronics

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Rajan Ambat

Dr. Rajan Ambat is currently Professor of Corrosion and Surface Engineering at Section of Materials and Surface Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark. He is also the Manager for the CELCORR/CreCon Industrial Consortium on climatic reliability of electronics at DTU and Research Manager for the Corrosion node of Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre. He has more than 15 years of expertise in the area of humidity and electronics, and developing mitigation strategies together with industries. This include electrochemical failure mechanisms at material, component, PCBA, and systems level, PCBA cleanliness issues and humidity interaction, modelling humidity interaction with electronics and pro-actively defining solutions. Prevention and predictive strategies include intrinsic and extrinsic methods for enhancing humidity robustness of electronics systems, not only the prevention methods based on corrosion and electrochemical understanding and coatings, but also using humidity flow modelling and climate data as a source of predictability for aggressiveness, and corrosion prediction sensors for electronic corrosion. Presently he is the Chairman for the Working Party on Corrosion reliability of electronic devices under European Federation of Corrosion and Board member, IMAPS Nordic, Europe. He has published extensively in a wide variety of topic connected to humidity and electronics.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Section of Materials and Surface Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Manager, CELCORR/CreCon Consortium, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

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Nando Kaminski

Nando Kaminski works in the University of Bremen at the Institut für elektrische Antriebe, Leistungselektronik und Bauelemente, Germany.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Bremen, Institut für elektrische Antriebe, Leistungselektronik und Bauelemente, Germany

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Bálint Medgyes

Associate Professor Bálint Medgyes works in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary