Overview
- Provides the description and translation of cross-disciplinary phenomena for reliability assurance including circuit design, ESD design and TCAD simulation
- Applies directly to the area of ESD protection design
- Explains complex physical descriptions so that they can be applied to the decision making process
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Since the beginning of semiconductor era in microelectronics the methodology of reliability assessment became a well established area. In most cases the reliability assessment involves statistical methods for safe operating area and long term re- ability parameters at the development of semiconductor processes, components and systems. At the same time in case of catastrophic failures at any development phase the major practical method is failure analysis (FA). However FA is mainly dealing with detection of consequences of some irreversible event that already happened. This book is focused on the most important and the less summarized reliability aspects. Among them: catastrophic failures, impact of local structural inhomo- neities, major principles of physical limitation of safe-operating area (SOA), physical mechanisms of the current instability, filamentation and conductivity modulation in particular device types and architectures. Specifically, the similar principles and regularities are discussed for elect- static discharge (ESD) protection devices, treating them as a particular case of pulsed power devices. Thus both the most intriguing applications and reliability problems in case of the discrete and the integrated components are covered in this book.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physical Limitations of Semiconductor Devices
Authors: V. A. Vashchenko, V. F. Sinkevitch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74514-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74513-8Published: 18 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4505-1Published: 27 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74514-5Published: 22 March 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 330
Topics: Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Circuits and Systems, Optical and Electronic Materials, Engineering, general