{"title":"TechRxiv: Share Your Preprint Research with the World!","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3311900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3311900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"442-442"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7298/10242179/10242190.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3517995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial TDMR IIRW Special Section","authors":"Francesco Maria Puglisi","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3306195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3306195","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) is a unique event that takes place every year at the beautiful Fallen Leaf Lake, South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA. The workshop brings together reliability engineers and researchers from all around the world, to exchange ideas over four days in a welcoming, pleasant, and informal setting. The workshop focuses on the recent advances in research on semiconductor device reliability and the related challenges. Topics include transistor and front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) reliability, time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB), bias temperature instability (BTI), hot carrier (HC), back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) reliability, electro-migration, circuit reliability, packaging reliability, conventional and emerging memory reliability, failure analysis, wafer-level reliability, and many others. Specifically, in 2022 IIRW focus areas were circuit reliability (device-circuit degradation and aging), in-memory computing and neuromorphic reliability, plasma-induced damage (PID), and electrostatic discharge (ESD).","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"307-308"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7298/10242179/10242194.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3507827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3305859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3305859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7298/10242179/10242232.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3507825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability Information for Authors","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3305860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3305860","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7298/10242179/10242221.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3517999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"A Method Adopting Aging Corner to Improve the Accuracy of Device Aging Simulation Model","authors":"Qianqian Sang;Xinhuan Yang;Jianyu Zhang;Chuanzheng Wang;Mingyan Yu;Yuanfu Zhao","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3304280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3304280","url":null,"abstract":"In order to predict the circuit liftetime accurately in the design phase, precise device aging models are enssential. Although some aging simulation models have been established in academia and industry, most of the aging models consider only single influence factor, resulting in differences between simulation and test. This paper proposes an aging simulation model that considers both process variation (PV) and aging variation (AV) among different MOSFETs. By statistically analyzing the influence of aging effect on device parameters, and borrowing from the concept process corner (PC), which is used to characterize the variation in the fabrication process, here in this paper we propose to use aging corner (AC), to characterize the variation in parameter degradation among devices. The simulation results show that the new model can predict the device degradation range more accurately.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"436-441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3517991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenjuan Zhou;Mingchen Zou;Mingxiang Wang;Dongli Zhang;Huaisheng Wang
{"title":"Frequency Dependent Degradation and Failure of Flexible a-InGaZnO Thin-Film Transistors Under Dynamic Stretch Stress","authors":"Wenjuan Zhou;Mingchen Zou;Mingxiang Wang;Dongli Zhang;Huaisheng Wang","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3303483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3303483","url":null,"abstract":"Operation of flexible electronic devices is often limited by their degradation and failure under dynamic mechanical stress, where the loading frequency (\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000) is found to be a critical factor in this study. The effect of \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 on device degradation and failure of flexible amorphous indium–gallium–zinc–oxide (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) under dynamic stretch stress is investigated in a \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 range of 0.7 to 2.7 Hz. The TFTs exhibit strong \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000-dependent degradation and failure behaviors, featuring larger degradation in off-state current due to mechanical-stress-induced nanocracks originated from the GI/channel interface, as well as more frequent metal wire crack at higher \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}text{s}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000. Such a strong \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000-dependency on flexible TFTs in micro-/nano- scales distinguishes it from all previous observations of the opposite or nil \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${f}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000-dependency of the fatigue life of conventional bulk or thick-film materials under mechanical stress.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"430-435"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3507963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maximilian Schmid;Andreas Zippelius;Alexander Hanß;Stephan Böckhorst;Gordon Elger
{"title":"Investigations on High-Power LEDs and Solder Interconnects in Automotive Application: Part II—Reliability","authors":"Maximilian Schmid;Andreas Zippelius;Alexander Hanß;Stephan Böckhorst;Gordon Elger","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3300355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3300355","url":null,"abstract":"Thermo-mechanical reliability is one major challenge in solid-state lighting for automotive applications. Mismatches in the coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) between high-power LED packages and substrates paired with temperature changes induce mechanical stress. This leads to thermal degradation by crack formation in the solder interconnect and/or delamination in the substrate, which in turn increases junction temperature, thus decreasing light output and reducing the lifetime. A reliability study with a total of 1,800 samples - segmented in nine LED types and five solder pastes - is performed to investigate degradation and understand the influence of solder material and LED package design. The results are presented in two papers. Initial characterization of the LEDs was handled in the first paper. This second paper focuses on degradation and lifetime. Overall, more than 40,000 transient thermal analysis (TTA) and 9,000 scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) measurements were taken to evaluate degradation during accelerated aging of 1,500 thermal shock cycles. Six different failure modes were observed, which were distinguishable by only using TTA data. For the reliability evaluation, crack ratio was determined by SAM images while thermal degradation as well as mean lifetime were determined using TTA data. Multiple observations were made within this study. First: SAM and TTA data correlated very well; Second: Higher silver content and additives in the solder paste reduce crack growth and increases lifetime; Third: Thick film ceramic LEDs reach significant longer lifetimes than thin film ceramic LEDs, and copper lead-frame LEDs reached by far the longest lifetimes; Fourth: A pad design with a greater pad size, smaller gaps and balanced size ratio between electrical and thermal pad is advantageous; Fifth: Voiding (below 10%) has no significant influence on the reliability.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"419-429"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/7298/10242179/10198766.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3518124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aarti Rathi;Purushothaman Srinivasan;Fernando Guarin;Abhisek Dixit
{"title":"Temperature-Dependent Study of Large-Signal Reliability of p-FET-Based Power Amplifier for mmWave Applications","authors":"Aarti Rathi;Purushothaman Srinivasan;Fernando Guarin;Abhisek Dixit","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3293794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3293794","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time, the temperature dependence of RF reliability of a power amplifier (PA) is investigated for the mmWave frequency band. The PA comprises a common source configured single pFET fabricated in 45RFSOI technology by GlobalFoundries. Temperature dependence of DC and large-signal figures of merit (FOMs) are analysed as a function of RF power levels and DC stress at the gate terminal for a continuous wave (CW) frequency of 26.5GHz. In this study, we have also investigated the relationship between temperature and the time slope exponent obtained from the % degradation in ON current \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$(I_{ON})$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 for different operating regions of PA. The degradation mechanism involves trapping hot holes in pre-existing traps and the generation of new traps in the oxide due to hot holes. A non-linear relationship between DC and RF FOMs \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$(I_{ON}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 and \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$P_{OUT})$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 is investigated for the increasing temperature. The non-linear relationship extracted from the slope between \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${Delta }I_{ON}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 and \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>${Delta }P_{OUT}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 shows that the DC performance is impacted more than the RF performance with the increasing temperature. Degradation in output power of PA cell increases with the temperature. As a result, the lifetime of PA cell decreases with increasing temperature and fails to achieve a 10-year lifetime.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"412-418"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3505007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on Lifetime Modeling of IGBT Modules Considering Electric Frequency Influence Mechanism","authors":"Wei Lai;Anbin Liu;Zhi Wang;Miaomiao Shangguan;Hui Li;Minyou Chen;Ran Yao;Yan Xiong","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2023.3288144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2023.3288144","url":null,"abstract":"Affected by the randomness of the wind speed, the output electric frequency (0~20Hz) of the rotor-side converter does not match the thermal time constant (about 100ms) of IGBT modules, which causes the different junction temperature stress. It leads that it is difficult for the traditional lifetime model to reflect the influence of multi-time constant thermal load and result in inaccurate reliability evaluation. Aiming at the characteristics of wind turbine-side converters bearing thermal loads with multiple time constants, this paper studies the influence mechanism of electric frequency on the reliability of IGBT modules through a multi-physics simulation model and power cycling tests, and an improved lifetime model considering the influence of frequency parameters is proposed. Finally, an example analysis of the reliability evaluation of the DFIG rotor side converter is carried out. This paper is intended for the health management of converter systems and is supposed to be in service reliably.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"23 3","pages":"395-403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"3505170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}