Power electronic and particularly conversion systems are becoming a major challenge for the future of energetic and transport systems. Technical and economic constraints related to new applications lead to an increase of module power densities while reducing cost and maintaining a good robustness. Today, solutions seem to emerge from innovative structures associated to wide band-gap semiconductors and three-dimensional integration. These solutions lead to many constraints in electro-thermo-mechanical (ETM) interconnection field. Temperature level rises allowed by wide band-gap semiconductors and attractiveness of double sided cooling provide by the 3D assemblies have significantly increase thermo-mechanical stresses and cause reliability problems. This is why new ETM interconnections are developed to facing those difficulties and enable this technological gap. However, thermal and electrical interconnections characterization tools need to be develop. Works presented in this thesis focuses on the development of tools for new interconnections characterization adapted to 3D package. The difficulty of obtaining the temperature of the component within the package has led us to explore two ways to estimate the junction temperature (TJ). In a first hand we integrate temperature and voltage sensors inside a power component in a clean room process thanks to the achievement of a specific thermal test chip (TTC). And in a second hand, by observing the temperature response of functional components, using a temperature-sensitive electrical parameter (TSEP). The both paths explored take advantage of innovative specific solutions to allow precise thermal and electrical characterization of power electronic assemblies.
