Y. Zhang, L. Wang, Y. Ji, X. Han, Z. Zhang, R. Heiderhoff, A.-K. Tiedemann, L. Balk
{"title":"Thermal conductivity studies of a GaN-sapphire structure by combined scanning thermal microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction","authors":"Y. Zhang, L. Wang, Y. Ji, X. Han, Z. Zhang, R. Heiderhoff, A.-K. Tiedemann, L. Balk","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232593","url":null,"abstract":"Scanning thermal microscope (SThM) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) techniques were used to investigate the local thermal-conductivity of a GaN-buffer-sapphire heterostructure. Compared with GaN epilayer, buffer layer displayed the low thermal-conductivity and the high strain state due to the lattice distortion.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128218640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermal and bias stabilities of InP/InGaAs composite-collector DHBT","authors":"Y. S. Lin, Y. Jou","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232643","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes composite-collector double heterojunction bipolar transistors (CC-DHBTs) made by low-pressure metamorphic organic chemical vapor deposition (LP-MOCVD). Both V-shaped behaviors (observed in dc current gain, β, against collector current, I<inf>C</inf>, and in offset voltage, V<inf>CE,offset</inf>, against base current, I<inf>B</inf>, plot) of the asymmetric CC-DHBT are studied. At high I<inf>C</inf>, the presented CC-DHBTs improve the dc current gain temperature stability relative to most HBTs described in the literature. Additionally, unlike that of the abrupt DHBTs in the literature, the β of the CC-DHBTs is independent of V<inf>CB</inf>, suggesting that the effect of the conduction-band barrier in the base-collector junctions may haven been eliminated. An analytical expression for the variation of V<inf>CE,offset</inf> with I<inf>B</inf> has been developed. Additionally, unlike that of the unpassivated and SiN<inf>x</inf>-passivated devices, the β of the sulfur-treated device is fairly constant over five decades of I<inf>C</inf>. The difference betreen these variously treated devices is remarkable. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was applied to study InGaAs surfaces that were (NH<inf>4</inf>)<inf>2</inf>S<inf>x</inf> and SiN<inf>x</inf> passivated. The results demonstrate that passivation effectively suppresses the oxidation of As.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134356499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of charge trapping in silicon dioxide and hafnium dioxide at nanoscale","authors":"You-Lin Wu, Chiung-Yi Huang, Jing-Jenn Lin","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232693","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we report a new measurement technique that can be used to determine the nanoscale charge trapping properties of gate oxide. Forward and backward sweep ramped voltage were applied to the samples in order to measure the nanoscale I–V characteristics using conductive atomic force microscopy (CAFM) in conjunction with a semiconductor parameter analyzer, Agilent 4156C. From the voltage hysteresis between the forward and backward sweeps I–V characteristics at a fixed current level, we successfully compared the differences between the nanoscale charge trapping in thermal SiO2 and ALD HfO2 gate dielectrics.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"90 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134093905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Ceric, R. Orio, J. Červenka, Siegfried Selberherr
{"title":"The effect of microstructure on electromigration induced voids","authors":"H. Ceric, R. Orio, J. Červenka, Siegfried Selberherr","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232556","url":null,"abstract":"We present the application of a state of the art electromigration model on a dual damascene interconnect with typical copper microstructure. The influence of the microstructure on the formation and development of an electromigration induced void is studied by simulation and the results are compared with experiments. A close investigation has shown that the network of grain boundaries has a decisive impact on the formation of void nucleation sites and void development.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126998501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kan Li, Dong Wu, Xueqian Wang, Fengying Qiao, Ning Deng, L. Pan
{"title":"Radiation hardened read circuit with high reliability for SOI based SONOS memory","authors":"Kan Li, Dong Wu, Xueqian Wang, Fengying Qiao, Ning Deng, L. Pan","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232661","url":null,"abstract":"A radiation hardened read circuit for a SONOS type EEPROM memory is designed in 0.6µm SOI process. Total dose radiation would cause large threshold voltage shifts of both memory cells and MOS transistors, hence degrades the reliability and performance of the sense amplifier. Compensation techniques for the sampling inverter and discharge path are proposed to achieve radiation hardness. Double branch precharge technique is developed to improve the read speed. As a result, the proposed sense amplifier is not sensitive to the radiation. Besides its high reliability, the proposed read circuit demonstrates high speed, achieving a sensing time of only 9.67ns.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122029506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lin Shi, Yingjin Pan, Zhihai Zhang, Jie Zhang, Weiwei, Wei Wang
{"title":"Analysis and experiment of surface bending to grating light modulator","authors":"Lin Shi, Yingjin Pan, Zhihai Zhang, Jie Zhang, Weiwei, Wei Wang","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232639","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of diffraction characteristics that the surface bending to two dimension grating light modulators is discussed in this paper. With consideration of surface bending, a corresponding model is built based on experimental data, and then the effects of different bending to the modulation results have been calculated which is testified by experiments.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124974402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Fu, Michael Su, F. Kuechenmeister, Weidong Huang
{"title":"Chip package interaction (CPI) reliability of Cu/low-k/ultra-low-k interconnect","authors":"Lei Fu, Michael Su, F. Kuechenmeister, Weidong Huang","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232555","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of low-k/ultra-low-k (ULK) dielectric materials to accommodate the continuous scaling down of the feature sizes of IC chips to improve the device density and performance of the ultra-large scale integrated (ULSI) circuits represents great silicon and packaging integration challenges due to the weak mechanical properties. To improve CPI reliability of Cu/low-k or ULK devices, a new crackstop design has been introduced. Underfill materials selection, ULK layer effect, interfacial strength improvement of low-k/ULK films, and lead-free impact on chip-package interaction (CPI) reliability are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123951963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of metal routing on the ESD robustness of dual-direction silicon controlled rectifier","authors":"W. Guo, Mingliang Li, S. Dong","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232637","url":null,"abstract":"Effect of metal routing on the robustness of silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) is studied for bi-direction electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection applications. Depending on the type of metal routing, different failure currents It2 can exist in the positive and negative directions due to the asymmetrical current conductions in the multi-finger dual-direction SCR. Transmission line pulsing (TLP) results are included in support of the analysis.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130074457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jyi-Tsong Lin, Tzu-Feng Chang, Y. Eng, Hsuan-Hsu Chen, C. Kuo, Chih-Hung Sun, Po-Hsieh Lin, Hsien-Nan Chiu
{"title":"Self-aligned SOI MOSFETs with Ω-shaped conductive layer and source/drain-tie","authors":"Jyi-Tsong Lin, Tzu-Feng Chang, Y. Eng, Hsuan-Hsu Chen, C. Kuo, Chih-Hung Sun, Po-Hsieh Lin, Hsien-Nan Chiu","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232558","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a novel self-aligned silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFET with Ω-shaped conductive layer and source/drain-tie (SA-ΩCFET). Based on the TCAD 2D simulation results, we find that combining the applications of a nature Source/Drain (S/D) tie with a recessed S/D region can effectively improve the issue of self-heating effects, but without losing control of the short-channel effects. Moreover, owing to the presence of the thick S/D junction thickness the parasitic S/D series resistance is reduced thus our proposed structure can gain a higher drain on-current and a higher maximum transconductance as compared with the conventional UTSOI device.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127764947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Failure analysis overview and its new challenges","authors":"Susan X. Li","doi":"10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPFA.2009.5232690","url":null,"abstract":"Failure analysis is a critical step for solving design, process, product and customer application issues. Failure analysts need to have strong and broad technical background as well as unique personality to be successful in this field. Failure analysis flow contains 8 basic steps, and should be followed to ensure the quality of the daily analysis work. Three case studies were demonstrated on how to use the 8-step FA flow to solve real life problems. With new technology, device materials and architecture in advanced products, new challenges need to be met in order to successfully support the failure analysis needs in the coming years.","PeriodicalId":210619,"journal":{"name":"2009 16th IEEE International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127795664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}