Non-destructive inspection of thermoelectric modules by scanning acoustic microscopy
Keywords:
thermoelectric modules, non-destructive inspection, scanning acoustic microscopyAbstract
In this work we present the potential of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) as an important nondestructive evaluation (NDE) method for process control as well as failure analysis of thermoelectric modules (TE-M). SAM is one part of the so called ‘Dream Team Concept’ which is described in detail in section 1.
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