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The research institute Swerea IVF is a
subsidiary of the Swerea group, a con-
glomerate of Swedish research institutes
within the fields of materials, process,
product, and production technology.
Swerea IVF’s staff of about 150 carries
out applied research, offer qualified re-
search and consultancy services and have
extensive experience of participating in
international projects, as well as of initi-
ating and coordinating them. The main
goal of Swerea IVF is to assist in the rapid
introduction of new technologies and
methods to practical use in our customers’
operations. Our customers include in-
dustrial companies as well as public in-
stitutions that turn to us to develop their
future resource efficient products and
processes.
Electronics Packaging and Reliability
Swerea IVF has more than 25 years ex-
perience in electronics packaging and
reliability. Materials and failure analysis,
both on destructive and destructive, are
important tools in the reliability assess-
ment. To that end we maintain sample
preparation, testing, and analysis labs in-
cluding SEM, Scanning Acoustic Micros-
copy, and Micro Focus X-ray equipment.
We assess the reliability of new packaging
concepts in research projects as well as for
specific products, notably field returns,
at the request of individual companies.
One example of a strong research effort
is Swerea IVF’s activities since 1997 in the
area of Dye-sensitized solar cells and
Perovskite solar cells which focus on the
development of materials, manufacturing
processes, upscaling and reliability testing
of prototypes where we are working
in a close collaboration with the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH),
Uppsala University, and Dyenamo AB.
The Electronics group together with the
ceramics experts in the Department of
Materials performs research within the
area of high performance electronics
with ceramic packaging solutions. In the
past 5 years the research has had strong
focus on high temperature applications
of GaN sensors, packaging of thermoelec-
tric materials and SiC power electronics.
Swerea IVF to this end works with addi-
tive direct manufacturing technologies
for packaging which allows highly inte-
grated power electronics and cooling
solutions. Recent power electronics pack-
aging research focuses on a solution with
stacked structures that allows for double
sided cooling. Swerea IVF was coordina-
tor of the recently finished FP 7 project
COSIVU, focusing on an electric wheel
motor drive system with SiC power
electronics.
Swerea IVF AB
SiC packaging concept with double sided cooling and water jet formed vias
Direct manufacturing from powder of Cu cooler for
SiC application
Full 3-D freedom in part manufacturing
