G.C. Lyu, X.P. Zhang, M.B. Zhou, C.B. Ke, Y.W. Mai
{"title":"Prediction of Crack Initiation at Die Corner of Molded Underfill Flip-Chip Packages Under Thermal Load by New Criteria—Part I: Accurate Formulation of Singular Stress Fields","authors":"G.C. Lyu, X.P. Zhang, M.B. Zhou, C.B. Ke, Y.W. Mai","doi":"10.1109/tdmr.2024.3420759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tdmr.2024.3420759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506379","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":"Single-Event Burnout Effects of Complementary LDMOS Devices in High-Voltage Integrated Circuits","authors":"Chonghao Chen;Jiang Xu;Zhuojun Chen","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3420391","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3420391","url":null,"abstract":"Lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) devices are vulnerable to single-event burnout (SEB) in radiation environments, potentially leading to catastrophic failure in high-voltage integrated circuits (HVICs). Pulsed-laser experiments have demonstrated that the SEB triggering voltage of n-type LDMOS (nLDMOS) is significantly lower than that of p-type LDMOS (pLDMOS), which limits the applications of complementary LDMOS devices in aerospace electronic systems. This work investigates the SEB mechanism in both nLDMOS and pLDMOS through technology computer-aided design (TCAD) simulations. The analysis reveals that differences in the current gain of parasitic bipolar transistors and well resistance between pLDMOS and nLDMOS result in varying SEB triggering voltages. Additionally, a radiation-hardening technique is employed to improve the SEB triggering voltage of nLDMOS, aligning it closely with that of pLDMOS. This research provides insight into the design of radiation-hardened high-voltage integrated circuits, such as DC-DC converters and motor drivers, using a standard Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) fabrication process.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 3","pages":"401-406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506378","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":"Design of Highly Reliable 14T and 16T SRAM Cells Combined With Layout Harden Technique","authors":"Feng Wei;Xiaole Cui;Qixue Zhang;Sunrui Zhang;Xiaoxin Cui;Xing Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3417961","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3417961","url":null,"abstract":"The node upset may occur in the memory cell if the charged particle from cosmos rays or packaging materials strikes the integrated circuit. Radiation-hardened-by-design (RHBD) techniques introduce redundant transistors in the SRAM cell to improve its ability of recovering from the undesired node upset. However, the extra redundant transistors may increase the number of sensitive nodes in the SRAM cell, which decreases its capability of node-upset tolerance in turn. This work proposes an RHBD 14T SRAM cell and an RHBD 16T SRAM cell. Both the proposed SRAM cells only have two sensitive nodes. The proposed SRAM cells are able to recover from all the SNU cases. The layout harden technique is used to protect the proposed cells from SEMNU, and the blank of the hardened layout is reused so the proposed 14T and 16T SRAM cells consume the same area. Although the proposed cells have more transistors, the hardened layout areas of NS-10T/ PS-10T/ RHD-12T/ RHBD-10T/ RHBD-10T[VLSI]/ QUCCE-12T are respectively \u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.78times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000/\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.78times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000/\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.83times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000/\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.78times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000/\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.78times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000/\u0000<inline-formula> <tex-math>$1.99times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 larger than that of the proposed cells. The reason is that the layout harden technique is easier to be applied to the proposed cells because they only have two sensitive nodes.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 3","pages":"390-400"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506380","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":"Special Issue on Intelligent Sensor Systems for the IEEE Journal of Electron Devices","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3405612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2024.3405612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 2","pages":"354-355"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10566484","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141435234","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":"Guest Editorial TDMR IIRW Special Section","authors":"Charles LaRow","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3407548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2024.3407548","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) is a distinctive event which brings together reliability researchers, professionals, and students from around the globe to a common forum for lively discussions, wonderful technical presentations, and beautiful scenery for 4 days and nights. The event takes place every year at Fallen Leaf Lake in South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, where attendees are housed within a secluded camp with informal meeting spaces and access to boats, trails, and many other outdoor activities. The scope of content centers around hot topics in, novel techniques for, and general knowledge on semiconductor reliability research and industry challenges. Talks on transistor and front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) reliability, bias temperature instability (BTI), hot carrier (HC), gate dielectric time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB), back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) reliability, Interconnect TDDB, electro-migration (EM), circuit reliability, packaging reliability, conventional and emerging memory reliability, failure analysis (FA), wafer-level reliability (WLR), among other topic are presented. The key focus areas at IIRW 2023 were Advanced node scaling solutions (FEOL/MOL/BEOL), circuit reliability (device-circuit degradation and aging).","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 2","pages":"159-160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10566481","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141435444","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":"Special Issue on Semiconductor Design for Manufacturing (DFM)Joint Call for Papers","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3412348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TDMR.2024.3412348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 2","pages":"356-356"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10566482","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141435413","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":"An Empirical Study on Fault Detection and Root Cause Analysis of Indium Tin Oxide Electrodes by Processing S-Parameter Patterns","authors":"Tae Yeob Kang;Haebom Lee;Sungho Suh","doi":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3415049","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TDMR.2024.3415049","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of optoelectronics, indium tin oxide (ITO) electrodes play a crucial role in various applications, such as displays, sensors, and solar cells. Effective fault diagnosis and root cause analysis of the ITO electrodes are essential to ensure the performance and reliability of the devices. However, traditional visual inspection is challenging with transparent ITO electrodes, and existing fault diagnosis methods have limitations in determining the root causes of the defects, often requiring destructive evaluations and secondary material characterization techniques. In this study, a fault diagnosis method with root cause analysis is proposed using scattering parameter (S-parameter) patterns, offering early detection, high diagnostic accuracy, and noise robustness. A comprehensive S-parameter pattern database is obtained according to various defect states of the ITO electrodes. Deep learning (DL) approaches, including multilayer perceptron (MLP), convolutional neural network (CNN), and transformer, are then used to simultaneously analyze the cause and severity of defects. Notably, it is demonstrated that the diagnostic performance under additive noise levels can be significantly enhanced by combining different channels of the S-parameters as input to the learning algorithms, as confirmed through the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) dimension reduction visualization of the S-parameter patterns.","PeriodicalId":448,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability","volume":"24 3","pages":"380-389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935389","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}