Journal: Microelectronics Reliability

Volume 49, Issue 9-11

935 -- 936Dean Lewis, Nathalie Labat. Editorial
937 -- 940D. M. Tanner. MEMS reliability: Where are we now?
941 -- 945T. Smedes. ESD testing of devices, ICs and systems
946 -- 951C. Bestory, F. Marc, S. Duzellier, H. Levi. Electrical aging behavioral modeling for reliability analyses of ionizing dose effects on an n-MOS simple current mirror
952 -- 957Jean Luc Lefebvre, Christian Gautier, Frédéric Barbier. Correlation between EOS customer return failure cases and Over Voltage Stress (OVS) test method
958 -- 962Charles Regard, Christian Gautier, Hélène Frémont, Patrick Poirier, Xiaosong Ma, Kaspar M. B. Jansen. Fast reliability qualification of SiP products
963 -- 966Jean-Baptiste Gros, Geneviève Duchamp, Alain Meresse, Jean-Luc Levant. Electromagnetic immunity model of an ADC for microcontroller s reliability improvement
967 -- 971Marcel Held, Klaus Fritz. Comparison and evaluation of newest failure rate prediction models: FIDES and RIAC 217Plus
972 -- 976Mauro Ciappa, Luigi Mangiacapra, Maria Stangoni, Stephan Ott, Wolfgang Fichtner. Ensuring the reliability of electron beam crosslinked electric cables by the optimization of the dose depth distribution with Monte Carlo simulation
977 -- 981Digeorgia N. da Silva, André Inácio Reis, Renato P. Ribas. CMOS logic gate performance variability related to transistor network arrangements
982 -- 988X. Garros, M. Casse, M. Rafik, C. Fenouillet-Béranger, Gilles Reimbold, F. Martin, C. Wiemer, F. Boulanger. Process dependence of BTI reliability in advanced HK MG stacks
994 -- 997Yong-Woo Jeon, Dae Hyun Ka, Chong-Gun Yu, Won-Ju Cho, M. Saif Islam, Jong-Tae Park. NBTI and hot carrier effect of SOI p-MOSFETs fabricated in strained Si SOI wafer
998 -- 1002Stanislav Tyaginov, Viktor Sverdlov, Ivan Starkov, Wolfgang Gös, Tibor Grasser. Impact of O-Si-O bond angle fluctuations on the Si-O bond-breakage rate
1003 -- 1007I. Manic, D. Dankovic, S. Djoric-Veljkovic, V. Davidovic, S. Golubovic, Ninoslav Stojadinovic. Effects of low gate bias annealing in NBT stressed p-channel power VDMOSFETs
1008 -- 1012Christelle Bénard, Gaëtan Math, Pascal Fornara, Jean-Luc Ogier, Didier Goguenheim. Influence of various process steps on the reliability of PMOSFETs submitted to negative bias temperature instabilities
1013 -- 1017Ph. Hehenberger, P.-J. Wagner, H. Reisinger, T. Grasser. On the temperature and voltage dependence of short-term negative bias temperature stress
1018 -- 1023M. A. Exarchos, G. J. Papaioannou, Jalal Jomaah, Francis Balestra. Investigation of defects introduced by static and dynamic hot carrier stress on SOI partially depleted body-contact MOSFETs
1024 -- 1028A. Crespo-Yepes, J. Martín-Martínez, R. Rodríguez, M. Nafría, X. Aymerich. Reversible dielectric breakdown in ultrathin Hf based high-k stacks under current-limited stresses
1029 -- 1032A. Alaeddine, M. Kadi, K. Daoud, B. Mazari. Effects of electromagnetic near-field stress on SiGe HBT s reliability
1033 -- 1037G. Busatto, G. Currò, Francesco Iannuzzo, A. Porzio, A. Sanseverino, F. Velardi. Experimental study about gate oxide damages in patterned MOS capacitor irradiated with heavy ions
1038 -- 1043Jie Liao, Cher Ming Tan, Geert Spierings. Behavior of hot carrier generation in power SOI LDNMOS with shallow trench isolation (STI)
1044 -- 1047Chi-Woo Lee, Isabelle Ferain, Aryan Afzalian, Ran Yan, Nima Dehdashti, Pedram Razavi, Jean-Pierre Colinge, Jong-Tae Park. NBTI and hot-carrier effects in accumulation-mode Pi-gate pMOSFETs
1048 -- 1051N. Berbel, R. Fernandez, I. Gil. Modelling and experimental verification of the impact of negative bias temperature instability on CMOS inverter
1052 -- 1055E. Miranda, J. Martin-Martinez, E. O Connor, G. Hughes, P. Casey, K. Cherkaoui, S. Monaghan, R. Long, D. O Connell, P. K. Hurley. Effects of the electrical stress on the conduction characteristics of metal gate/MgO/InP stacks
1056 -- 1059J. Postel-Pellerin, F. Lalande, P. Canet, Rachid Bouchakour, F. Jeuland, B. Bertello, B. Villard. Extraction of 3D parasitic capacitances in 90 nm and 22 nm NAND flash memories
1060 -- 1063J. Postel-Pellerin, F. Lalande, P. Canet, Rachid Bouchakour, F. Jeuland, L. Morancho. Modeling charge variation during data retention of MLC Flash memories
1064 -- 1069Lucas Brusamarello, Gilson I. Wirth, Roberto da Silva. Statistical RTS model for digital circuits
1070 -- 1073M. Roca, R. Laffont, G. Micolau, F. Lalande, O. Pizzuto. A Modelisation of the temperature dependence of the Fowler-Nordheim current in EEPROM memories
1074 -- 1078M. T. Chentir, J.-B. Jullien, B. Valtchanov, E. Bouyssou, L. Ventura, C. Anceau. Percolation theory applied to PZT thin films capacitors breakdown mechanisms
1079 -- 1085Wolfgang Stadler, Tilo Brodbeck, Reinhold Gärtner, Harald Gossner. Do ESD fails in systems correlate with IC ESD robustness?
1086 -- 1089Arijit Roy, Yuejin Hou, Cher Ming Tan. Electromigration in width transition copper interconnect
1090 -- 1095Joharsyah Ciptokusumo, Kirsten Weide-Zaage, Oliver Aubel. Investigation of stress distribution in via bottom of Cu-via structures with different via form by means of submodeling
1096 -- 1102Muhammad Bashir, Linda S. Milor. A methodology to extract failure rates for low-k dielectric breakdown with multiple geometries and in the presence of die-to-die linewidth variation
1103 -- 1106M. Diatta, E. Bouyssou, D. Trémouilles, P. Martinez, F. Roqueta, O. Ory, M. Bafleur. Failure mechanisms of discrete protection device subjected to repetitive electrostatic discharges (ESD)
1107 -- 1110Philippe Galy, Sylvain Dudit, Michel Vallet, C. Richier, Christophe Entringer, F. Jezequel, E. Petit, J. Beltritti. Impact and damage on deep sub-micron CMOS technology induced by substrate current due to ESD stress
1111 -- 1115Augusto Tazzoli, L. Cerati, A. Andreini, Gaudenzio Meneghesso. Breakdown characterization of gate oxides in 35 and 70 Å BCD8 smart power technology
1116 -- 1126Masatsugu Yamashita, Chiko Otani, Sunmi Kim, Hironaru Murakami, Masayoshi Tonouchi, Toru Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Midoh, Katsuyoshi Miura, Koji Nakamae, Kiyoshi Nikawa. Laser THz emission microscope as a novel tool for LSI failure analysis
1127 -- 1131Joy Y. Liao, Tung Ton, Nathan Slattengren, Steven Kasapi, William K. Lo, Howard L. Marks, Yin S. Ng, Ted Lundquist. Jitter analysis of PLL-generated clock propagation using Jitter Mitigation techniques with laser voltage probing
1132 -- 1136Helmut Köck, Vladimir Kosel, Christian Djelassi, Michael Glavanovics, Dionyz Pogany. IR thermography and FEM simulation analysis of on-chip temperature during thermal-cycling power-metal reliability testing using in situ heated structures
1137 -- 1142C. Hartmann, M. Wieberneit. Investigation on marginal failure characteristics and related defects analysed by soft defect localization
1143 -- 1147C. Godlewski, Vincent Pouget, Dean Lewis, Mathieu Lisart. Electrical modeling of the effect of beam profile for pulsed laser fault injection
1153 -- 1157Jae-Seong Jeong, Sang-Deuk Park. Failure analysis of video processor defined as No Fault Found (NFF): Reproduction in system level and advanced analysis technique in IC level
1158 -- 1164Rudolf Schlangen, R. Leihkauf, Uwe Kerst, Ted Lundquist, Peter Egger, Christian Boit. Physical analysis, trimming and editing of nanoscale IC function with backside FIB processing
1165 -- 1168A.-K. Tiedemann, K. Kurz, M. Fakhri, R. Heiderhoff, J. C. H. Phang, L. J. Balk. Finite element analyses assisted Scanning Joule Expansion Microscopy on interconnects for failure analysis and reliability investigations
1169 -- 1174F. Infante, Philippe Perdu, Dean Lewis. Magnetic microscopy for 3D devices: Defect localization with high resolution and long working distance on complex system in package
1175 -- 1181Gerald Haller, Aziz Machouat, Dean Lewis, Vincent Pouget. Net integrity checking by optical localization techniques
1182 -- 1187Yasuhiro Mitsui, Takeshi Sunaoshi, Jon C. Lee. A study of electrical characteristic changes in MOSFET by electron beam irradiation
1188 -- 1191M. Lanza, M. Porti, M. Nafría, X. Aymerich, G. Ghidini, A. Sebastiani. Trapped charge and stress induced leakage current (SILC) in tunnel SiO::2:: layers of de-processed MOS non-volatile memory devices observed at the nanoscale
1192 -- 1195Roland Biberger, Guenther Benstetter, Holger Goebel. Displacement current sensor for contact and intermittent contact scanning capacitance microscopy
1196 -- 1199G. Mura, Massimo Vanzi. Lot reliability issues in commercial off the shelf (COTS) microelectronic devices
1200 -- 1206Jesús A. del Alamo, Jungwoo Joh. GaN HEMT reliability
1207 -- 1210N. Ronchi, Franco Zanon, A. Stocco, Augusto Tazzoli, Enrico Zanoni, Gaudenzio Meneghesso. Reliability analysis of AlGaN/GaN HEMT on SopSiC composite substrate under long-term DC-life test
1211 -- 1215Arkadiusz Glowacki, Piotr Laskowski, Christian Boit, Ponky Ivo, Eldad Bahat-Treidel, Reza Pazirandeh, Richard Lossy, Joachim Würfland, Günther Tränkle. Characterization of stress degradation effects and thermal properties of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with photon emission spectral signatures
1216 -- 1221N. Malbert, Nathalie Labat, A. Curutchet, C. Sury, V. Hoel, J.-C. De Jaeger, N. Defrance, Y. Douvry, Christian Dua, Mourad Oualli, C. Bru-Chevallier, J. M. Bluet, W. Chikhaoui. Characterisation and modelling of parasitic effects and failure mechanisms in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
1222 -- 1225Michele Piazza, Christian Dua, Mourad Oualli, Erwan Morvan, Dominique Carisetti, Frédéric Wyczisk. Degradation of TiAlNiAu as ohmic contact metal for GaN HEMTs
1226 -- 1230Cher Ming Tan, Boon Khai Eric Chen, Gan Xu, Yuanjie Liu. Analysis of humidity effects on the degradation of high-power white LEDs
1231 -- 1235Jeung-Mo Kang, Jae Wook Kim, Jeong-Hyeon Choi, Du-Hyun Kim, Ho-Ki Kwon. Life-time estimation of high-power blue light-emitting diode chips
1236 -- 1239Nicola Trivellin, Matteo Meneghini, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Enrico Zanoni, Kenji Orita, Masaaki Yuri, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Daisuke Ueda. Reliability analysis of InGaN Blu-Ray laser diode
1240 -- 1243E. Nogueira, Manuel Vázquez, Neftalí Núñez. Evaluation of AlGaInP LEDs reliability based on accelerated tests
1244 -- 1249Tsung-Lin Chou, Chien-Fu Huang, Cheng-Nan Han, Shin-Yueh Yang, Kuo-Ning Chiang. Fabrication process simulation and reliability improvement of high-brightness LEDs
1250 -- 1255Hua Lu 0003, Chris Bailey, Chunyan Yin. Design for reliability of power electronics modules
1256 -- 1259J. Ruan, N. Nolhier, G. J. Papaioannou, D. Trémouilles, V. Puyal, C. Villeneuve, T. Idda, Fabio Coccetti, Robert Plana. Accelerated lifetime test of RF-MEMS switches under ESD stress
1260 -- 1266S. Pietranico, S. Pommier, Stéphane Lefebvre, Zoubir Khatir, S. Bontemps. Characterisation of power modules ceramic substrates for reliability aspects
1267 -- 1272M. Berthou, P. Retailleau, Hélène Frémont, A. Guédon-Gracia, C. Jéphos-Davennel. Microstructure evolution observation for SAC solder joint: Comparison between thermal cycling and thermal storage
1273 -- 1277Manoubi Auguste Bahi, Hélène Frémont, Jean-Pierre Landesman, Annabelle Gentil, Pascal Lecuyer. A new methodology for the identification of ball bond degradation during high-temperature aging tests on devices in standard plastic packages
1278 -- 1282Haruka Kubo, Mauro Ciappa, Takayuki Masunaga, Wolfgang Fichtner. Multiscale simulation of aluminum thin films for the design of highly-reliable MEMS devices
1283 -- 1287G. Khatibi, W. Wroczewski, B. Weiss, H. Ipser. A novel accelerated test technique for assessment of mechanical reliability of solder interconnects
1288 -- 1292Peter Jacob, Willy Knecht, Albert Kunz, Giovanni Nicoletti, Thomas Lautenschlager, Moreno Mondada, Damien Pachoud. Reading distance degradation mechanisms of near-field RFID devices
1293 -- 1298Mirko Bernardoni, Paolo Cova, Nicola Delmonte, Roberto Menozzi. Heat management for power converters in sealed enclosures: A numerical study
1299 -- 1303Y. Liu, F. J. H. G. Kessels, Willem D. van Driel, J. A. S. van Driel, F. L. Sun, G. Q. Zhang. Comparing drop impact test method using strain gauge measurements
1304 -- 1308Mohamed Matmat, Fabio Coccetti, Antoine Marty, Robert Plana, Christophe Escriba, Jean-Yves Fourniols, Daniel Estève. Capacitive RF MEMS analytical predictive reliability and lifetime characterization
1309 -- 1314U. Zaghloul, G. Papaioannou, Fabio Coccetti, Patrick Pons, Robert Plana. Dielectric charging in silicon nitride films for MEMS capacitive switches: Effect of film thickness and deposition conditions
1315 -- 1318S. P. M. Noijen, Olaf van der Sluis, P. H. M. Timmermans, G. Q. Zhang. Numerical prediction of failure paths at a roughened metal/polymer interface
1319 -- 1325U. Scheuermann. Reliability challenges of automotive power electronics
1326 -- 1329Philippe Monfraix, Regis Barbaste, Jean Luc Muraro, Claude Drevon, Jean Louis Cazaux. Quasi hermetic packaging for new generation of spaceborn microwave equipment
1330 -- 1333D. Martineau, T. Mazeaud, M. Legros, Ph. Dupuy, C. Levade, G. Vanderschaeve. Characterization of ageing failures on power MOSFET devices by electron and ion microscopies
1334 -- 1340Vezio Malandruccolo, Mauro Ciappa, Hubert Rothleitner, Wolfgang Fichtner. A new built-in screening methodology to achieve zero defects in the automotive environment
1341 -- 1345B. Bernoux, R. Escoffier, P. Jalbaud, J. M. Dorkel. Source electrode evolution of a low voltage power MOSFET under avalanche cycling
1346 -- 1351G. Haberfehlner, Scrgey Bychikhin, V. Dubec, Michael Heer, A. Podgaynaya, M. Pfost, M. Stecher, Erich Gornik, Dionyz Pogany. Thermal imaging of smart power DMOS transistors in the thermally unstable regime using a compact transient interferometric mapping system
1352 -- 1357F. Carastro, Alberto Castellazzi, J. C. Clare, M. Johnson, M. Bland, P. W. Wheeler. Reliability considerations in pulsed power resonant conversion
1358 -- 1362Mounira Berkani, Stéphane Lefebvre, Narjes Boughrara, Zoubir Khatir, Jean-Claude Faugières, Peter Friedrichs, Ali Haddouche. Estimation of SiC JFET temperature during short-circuit operations
1363 -- 1369Giovanni Busatto, Carmine Abbate, Francesco Iannuzzo, P. Cristofaro. Instable mechanisms during unclamped operation of high power IGBT modules
1370 -- 1374A. Micol, A. Zeanh, T. Lhommeau, Stephane Azzopardi, E. Woirgard, O. Dalverny, M. Karama. An investigation into the reliability of power modules considering baseplate solders thermal fatigue in aeronautical applications
1375 -- 1380L. Dupont, G. Coquery, K. Kriegel, A. Melkonyan. Accelerated active ageing test on SiC JFETs power module with silver joining technology for high temperature application
1381 -- 1385F. Molière, B. Foucher, P. Perdu, A. Bravaix. Analysis of deep submicron VLSI technological risks: A new qualification process for professional electronics
1386 -- 1390Lucio Rossi, M. Riccio, E. Napoli, Andrea Irace, Giovanni Breglio, Paolo Spirito. 1300 V, 2 ms pulse inductive load switching test circuit with 20 ns selectable crowbar intervention
1391 -- 1397H. El Brouji, O. Briat, J.-M. Vinassa, H. Henry, E. Woirgard. Analysis of the dynamic behavior changes of supercapacitors during calendar life test under several voltages and temperatures conditions
1398 -- 1403Yassine Belmehdi, Stephane Azzopardi, A. Benmansour, J.-Y. Delétage, Eric Woirgard. Uni-axial mechanical stress effect on Trench Punch through IGBT under short-circuit operation

Volume 49, Issue 8

823 -- 824Artur Wymyslowski. Guest Editorial: 2008 EuroSimE international conference on thermal, mechanical and multi-physics simulation and experiments in micro-electronics and micro-systems
825 -- 838Pradeep Lall, Madhura Hande, Chandan Bhat, Vikrant More, Rahul Vaidya. Prognostication of system-state in lead-free electronics equipment under cyclic and steady-state thermo-mechanical loads
839 -- 845Rainer Dudek, Ralf Doering, Christine Bombach, Bernd Michel. Simulation based analysis of secondary effects on solder fatigue
846 -- 852J. J. M. Zaal, Hendrik Pieter Hochstenbach, Willem D. van Driel, G. Q. Zhang. Solder interconnect reliability under drop impact loading conditions using High-speed Cold Bump Pull
853 -- 860Olaf van der Sluis, R. A. B. Engelen, P. H. M. Timmermans, G. Q. Zhang. Numerical analysis of delamination and cracking phenomena in multi-layered flexible electronics
861 -- 871X. J. Fan, S. W. R. Lee, Q. Han. Experimental investigations and model study of moisture behaviors in polymeric materials
872 -- 876Kaspar M. B. Jansen, C. Qian, Leo J. Ernst, C. Bohm, A. Kessler, H. Preu, M. Stecher. Modeling and characterization of molding compound properties during cure
877 -- 883Nancy Iwamoto, Ahila Krishnamoorthy, Richard Spear. Performance properties in thick film silicate dielectric layers using molecular modeling
885 -- 891R. Fernández-García, Ben Kaczer, Guido Groeseneken. A CMOS circuit for evaluating the NBTI over a wide frequency range
892 -- 896Zhen-Ying Hsieh, Mu-Chun Wang, Chih Chen, Jia-Min Shieh, Yu-Ting Lin, Shuang-Yuan Chen, Heng-Sheng Huang. Trend transformation of drain-current degradation under drain-avalanche hot-carrier stress for CLC n-TFTs
897 -- 903Wei Bian, Jin He, Lining Zhang, Jian Zhang 0002, Mansun Chan. Sub-threshold behavior of long channel undoped cylindrical surrounding-gate MOSFETs
904 -- 911H. Altuntas, S. Altindal, H. Shtrikman, S. Özçelik. 2/n-GaAs in wide temperature range
912 -- 915L. Liu, J. P. Xu, L. L. Chen, P. T. Lai. A study on the improved programming characteristics of flash memory with Si::3::N::4::/SiO::2:: stacked tunneling dielectric
916 -- 923E. H. Wong, Yiu-Wing Mai. The damped dynamics of printed circuit board and analysis of distorted and deformed half-sine excitation
924 -- 933Seyyed Javad Seyyed Mahdavi, Karim Mohammadi. SCRAP: Sequential circuits reliability analysis program

Volume 49, Issue 7

673 -- 680José Ramón González, Manuel Vázquez, Neftalí Núñez, Carlos Algora, Ignacio Rey-Stolle, Beatriz Galiana. Reliability analysis of temperature step-stress tests on III-V high concentrator solar cells
689 -- 692Adelmo Ortiz-Conde, Francisco J. García-Sánchez, Juan Muci, Denise C. Lugo Muñoz, Álvaro D. Latorre Rey, Ching-Sung Ho, Juin J. Liou. Indirect fitting procedure to separate the effects of mobility degradation and source-and-drain resistance in MOSFET parameter extraction
693 -- 698Te-Kuang Chiang. A new two-dimensional subthreshold behavior model for the short-channel asymmetrical dual-material double-gate (ADMDG) MOSFET's
699 -- 706Rupendra Kumar Sharma, Ritesh Gupta, Mridula Gupta, R. S. Gupta. Dynamic performance of graded channel DG FD SOI n-MOSFETs for minimizing the gate misalignment effect
707 -- 715Juan Antonio Maestro, Pedro Reviriego. A method to eliminate the event accumulation problem from a memory affected by multiple bit upsets
716 -- 720P. Thangadurai, W. D. Kaplan, V. Mikhelashvili, G. Eisenstein. The influence of electron-beam irradiation on electrical characteristics of metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitors based on a high-k dielectric stack of HfTiSiO(N) and HfTiO(N) layers
721 -- 726S. W. King, J. A. Gradner. z: H system
727 -- 733Huimin Xie, Satoshi Kishimoto, Yanjie Li, Qingjun Liu, Yapu Zhao. Fabrication of micro-moiré gratings on a strain sensor structure for deformation analysis with micro-moiré technique
734 -- 745Ming-Hwa R. Jen, Lee-Cheng Liu, Yi-Shao Lai. Electromigration on void formation of Sn3Ag1.5Cu FCBGA solder joints
746 -- 753Asit Kumar Gain, Y. C. Chan, Ahmed Sharif, N. B. Wong, Winco K. C. Yung. Interfacial microstructure and shear strength of Ag nano particle doped Sn-9Zn solder in ball grid array packages
754 -- 760F. X. Che, John H. L. Pang. Vibration reliability test and finite element analysis for flip chip solder joints
761 -- 770Andrew Farris, Jianbiao Pan, Albert A. Liddicoat, Michael Krist, Nicholas Vickers, Brian J. Toleno, Dan Maslyk, Dongkai Shangguan, Jasbir Bath, Dennis Willie, David A. Geiger. Drop impact reliability of edge-bonded lead-free chip scale packages
771 -- 781M. Mayer, J. T. Moon, J. Persic. Measuring stress next to Au ball bond during high temperature aging
782 -- 790Sari Merilampi, T. Laine-Ma, Pekka Ruuskanen. The characterization of electrically conductive silver ink patterns on flexible substrates
791 -- 799Robin Alastair Amy, Guglielmo S. Aglietti, Guy Richardson. Sensitivity analysis of simplified Printed Circuit Board finite element models
806 -- 812Jin-Sang Hwang, Ju-Yeol Kim, Seok-Chan Kang, Dong-Sung Seo, YoungHwan Kwon. Feasibility study of non-conductive film (NCF) for plasma display panel (PDP) application
813 -- 820Emina I. Milovanovic, T. R. Nikolic, Mile K. Stojcev, Igor Z. Milovanovic. Multi-functional systolic array with reconfigurable micro-power processing elements

Volume 49, Issue 6

567 -- 568Andrzej Dziedzic. IMAPS-CPMT Poland 2008 - Guest Editorial
569 -- 572Agata Skwarek, Krzysztof Witek, Jacek Ratajczak. Risk of whiskers formation on the surface of commercially available tin-rich alloys under thermal shocks
573 -- 578Bálint Sinkovics, Oliver Krammer. Board level investigation of BGA solder joint deformation strength
579 -- 584Selim Achmatowicz, Konrad Kielbasinski, Elzbieta Zwierkowska, Iwona Wyzkiewicz, Valentinas Baltrusaitis, Malgorzata Jakubowska. A new photoimageable platinum conductor
585 -- 591Karol Malecha, Leszek J. Golonka. Three-dimensional structuration of zero-shrinkage LTCC ceramics for microfluidic applications
592 -- 599Walter Smetana, Bruno Balluch, Günther Stangl, Sigrid Lüftl, Sabine Seidler. Processing procedures for the realization of fine structured channel arrays and bridging elements by LTCC-Technology
600 -- 606Damian Nowak, Edward Mis, Andrzej Dziedzic, Jaroslaw Kita. Fabrication and electrical properties of laser-shaped thick-film and LTCC microresistors
607 -- 613Edward Mis, Andrzej Dziedzic, Witold Mielcarek. Microvaristors in thick-film and LTCC circuits
621 -- 626Mathieu Hautefeuille, Brendan O Flynn, Frank Peters, Conor O Mahony. Miniaturised multi-MEMS sensor development
627 -- 629Ryszard Kisiel, Zbigniew Szczepanski. Die-attachment solutions for SiC power devices
631 -- 641A. Micol, C. Martin, O. Dalverny, Michel Mermet-Guyennet, M. Karama. Reliability of lead-free solder in power module with stochastic uncertainty
642 -- 649Aditya Bansal, Rahul M. Rao, Jae-Joon Kim, Sufi Zafar, James H. Stathis, Ching-Te Chuang. Impacts of NBTI and PBTI on SRAM static/dynamic noise margins and cell failure probability
650 -- 659Yuan-Wen Hsiao, Ming-Dou Ker. Low-capacitance ESD protection design for high-speed I/O interfaces in a 130-nm CMOS process
660 -- 666Samrat L. Sabat, Leandro dos Santos Coelho, Ajith Abraham. MESFET DC model parameter extraction using Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization
667 -- 672Meng Liu, Ai-Ping Xian. Tin whisker growth on bulk Sn-Pb eutectic doping with Nd

Volume 49, Issue 5

467 -- 0Peter Ersland, Roberto Menozzi. Editorial
468 -- 473F. Bertoluzza, Nicola Delmonte, Roberto Menozzi. Three-dimensional finite-element thermal simulation of GaN-based HEMTs
474 -- 477M. Dammann, W. Pletschen, Patrick Waltereit, W. Bronner, Rüdiger Quay, S. Müller, Michael Mikulla, Oliver Ambacher, P. J. van der Wel, S. Murad, T. Rödle, R. Behtash, F. Bourgeois, K. Riepe, M. Fagerlind, E. Ö. Sveinbjörnsson. Reliability and degradation mechanism of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs for next generation mobile communication systems
478 -- 483S. Y. Park, Carlo Floresca, Uttiya Chowdhury, Jose L. Jimenez, Cathy Lee, Edward Beam, Paul Saunier, Tony Balistreri, Moon J. Kim. Physical degradation of GaN HEMT devices under high drain bias reliability testing
484 -- 487C. Gil, Peter Ersland, A. Li. Determining DC/RF survivability limits of GaAs semiconductor circuits
488 -- 494Charles S. Whitman. Prediction of transmission line lifetimes over temperature and current density
495 -- 498N. A. Chowdhury, X. Wang, G. Bersuker, C. Young, N. Rahim, D. Misra. Temperature dependent time-to-breakdown (T::BD::) of TiN/HfO::2:: n-channel MOS devices in inversion
499 -- 505J. B. Sauveplane, E. Scheid, A. Deram. On the accurate determination of the thermomechanical properties of micro-scale material: Application to AlSi::1 :: chip metallization of a power semiconductor device
506 -- 509Oi-Ying Wong, Wing-Shan Tam, Oi-Kan Shea, Shiu Hung Cheung, Jun Liu, Chi-Wah Kok, Hei Wong. Effects of periphery encapsulation material on the characteristics of micro vacuum dielectric capacitor
510 -- 516Zunxian Yang, Yun Huang, Xinxin Li, Guonan Chen. Investigation and simulation on the dynamic shock response performance of packaged high-g MEMS accelerometer versus the impurity concentration of the piezoresistor
517 -- 522Jin-Sang Hwang, Myeong-Hwan Kim, Dong-Sung Seo, Jong Woo Won, Doo-Kyung Moon. Effects of soft segment mixtures with different molecular weight on the properties and reliability of UV curable adhesives for electrodes protection of plasma display panel (PDP)
523 -- 529K. K. Jinka, A. Dasgupta, S. Ganesan, S. Ling. Chip-on board technology for low temperature environment. Part II: Thermomechanical stresses in encapsulated ball-wedge bond wires
530 -- 536Bo Zhang, Han Ding, Xinjun Sheng. Reliability study of board-level lead-free interconnections under sequential thermal cycling and drop impact
537 -- 543Nowshad Amin, Victor Lim, Foong Chee Seng, Rozaidi Razid, Ibrahim Ahmad. A practical investigation on nickel plated copper heat spreader with different catalytic activation processes for flip-chip ball grid array packages
544 -- 550Wei-Chih Kuan, S. W. Liang, Chih Chen. Effect of bump size on current density and temperature distributions in flip-chip solder joints
551 -- 557Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori, Hossein Asadi, Brian Mullins, David R. Kaeli. Obtaining FPGA soft error rate in high performance information systems
558 -- 561W. S. Lau, Joy B. H. Tan, B. P. Singh. Formation of Ohmic contacts in AlGaN/GaN HEMT structures at 500 degreeC by Ohmic contact recess etching
562 -- 565Jianxin Zhu, Zhihua Chen. High-accurate computation of wave propagation in complex waveguides for microchip optical interconnections

Volume 49, Issue 4

357 -- 364Yoshino K. Fukai, Kenji Kurishima, Norihide Kashio, Minoru Ida, Shoji Yamahata, Takatomo Enoki. Emitter-metal-related degradation in InP-based HBTs operating at high current density and its suppression by refractory metal
365 -- 370A. Srivastava, Partha Sarkar, Chandan Kumar Sarkar. Study of gate dielectric permittivity variation with different equivalent oxide thickness on channel engineered deep sub-micrometer n-MOSFET device for mixed signal applications
371 -- 376Chia-Huai Ho, Kuei-Shu Chang-Liao, Chun-Yuan Lu, Chun-Chang Lu, Tien-Ko Wang. Employing vertical dielectric layers to improve the operation performance of flash memory devices
377 -- 381Fayçal Djeffal, Z. Ghoggali, Zohir Dibi, N. Lakhdar. Analytical analysis of nanoscale multiple gate MOSFETs including effects of hot-carrier induced interface charges
382 -- 386Dongyue Jin, Wanrong Zhang, Hongyun Xie, Liang Chen, Pei Shen, Ning Hu. Structure optimization of multi-finger power SiGe HBTs for thermal stability improvement
387 -- 391Sik-Lam Siu, Hei Wong, Wing-Shan Tam, K. Kakusima, H. Iwai. Subthreshold parameters of radio-frequency multi-finger nanometer MOS transistors
392 -- 396Partha Sarkar, Abhijit Mallik, Chandan Kumar Sarkar. Study on the performance of sub 100 nm LACLATI MOSFETs for digital application
397 -- 409L. B. Tan, Xiaowu Zhang, C. T. Lim, V. B. C. Tan. Mapping the failure envelope of board-level solder joints
424 -- 430Krzysztof Górecki, Janusz Zarebski. Electrothermal analysis of the self-excited push-pull DC-DC converter
431 -- 437Krzysztof Górecki. Non-linear average electrothermal models of buck and boost converters for SPICE
438 -- 447Jong Kang Park, Jong-Tae Kim, Myong-chul Shin. A CORDIC-based digital protective relay and its architecture
448 -- 459Tatjana Nikolic, Mile K. Stojcev, Goran L. Djordjevic. CDMA bus-based on-chip interconnect infrastructure
460 -- 462R. J. Martín-Palma, C. G. Pantano, A. Lakhtakia. Towards the use of the conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation technique in fabricating microelectronic circuits and microsystems
463 -- 465Chel-Jong Choi, Ha-Yong Yang, Hyo-Bong Hong, Jin-Gyu Kim, Sung-Yong Chang, Jouhahn Lee. Characteristics of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device with Er metal gate on SiO::2:: film

Volume 49, Issue 3

221 -- 222Yi-Shao Lai, Ho-Ming Tong, King-Ning Tu. Recent research advances in Pb-free solders
223 -- 234J. Shen, Y. C. Chan. Research advances in nano-composite solders
235 -- 241Li-Wei Lin, Jenn-Ming Song, Yi-Shao Lai, Ying-Ta Chiu, Ning-Cheng Lee, Jun-Yen Uan. Alloying modification of Sn-Ag-Cu solders by manganese and titanium
242 -- 247Tomi Laurila, J. Hurtig, V. Vuorinen, Jorma K. Kivilahti. Effect of Ag, Fe, Au and Ni on the growth kinetics of Sn-Cu intermetallic compound layers
248 -- 252Y. W. Wang, Y. W. Lin, C. R. Kao. Kirkendall voids formation in the reaction between Ni-doped SnAg lead-free solders and different Cu substrates
253 -- 263Brook Huang-Lin Chao, Xuefeng Zhang, Seung-Hyun Chae, Paul S. Ho. Recent advances on kinetic analysis of electromigration enhanced intermetallic growth and damage formation in Pb-free solder joints
264 -- 268Jiunn Chen, Yi-Shao Lai. Towards elastic anisotropy and strain-induced void formation in Cu-Sn crystalline phases
269 -- 287S. M. Hayes, N. Chawla, D. R. Frear. Interfacial fracture toughness of Pb-free solders
288 -- 295Sun-Kyoung Seo, Sung K. Kang, Da-Yuan Shih, Hyuck Mo Lee. The evolution of microstructure and microhardness of Sn-Ag and Sn-Cu solders during high temperature aging
296 -- 302Feng Gao, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Tadashi Takemoto, Jianmin Qu. Mechanical properties versus temperature relation of individual phases in Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu lead-free solder alloy
303 -- 309Ruihong Zhang, Ran Zhao, Fu Guo, Zhidong Xia. Interfacial reaction between the electroless nickel immersion gold substrate and Sn-based solders
310 -- 317S. T. Jenq, Hsuan-Hu Chang, Yi-Shao Lai, Tsung-Yueh Tsai. High strain rate compression behavior for Sn-37Pb eutectic alloy, lead-free Sn-1Ag-0.5Cu and Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu alloys
318 -- 322Albert T. Wu, Y. C. Ding. The suppression of tin whisker growth by the coating of tin oxide nano particles and surface treatment
323 -- 330Vivek Chidambaram, John Hald, Jesper Henri Hattel. Development of gold based solder candidates for flip chip assembly
331 -- 339J. de Vries, M. Jansen, Willem D. van Driel. Solder-joint reliability of HVQFN-packages subjected to thermal cycling
340 -- 349Aldo Ghisi, Fabio Fachin, Stefano Mariani, Sarah Zerbini. Multi-scale analysis of polysilicon MEMS sensors subject to accidental drops: Effect of packaging
350 -- 356Shufeng Zhao, Xingshou Pang. Investigation of delamination control in plastic package

Volume 49, Issue 2

103 -- 112Zeynep Çelik-Butler, Siva Prasad Devireddy, Hsing-Huang Tseng, Philip J. Tobin, Ania Zlotnicka. A low-frequency noise model for advanced gate-stack MOSFETs
113 -- 119Te-Kuang Chiang. A new two-dimensional analytical subthreshold behavior model for short-channel tri-material gate-stack SOI MOSFET's
120 -- 126G. Langfelder, A. Longoni, F. Zaraga, A. Corigliano, A. Ghisi, A. Merassi. A new on-chip test structure for real time fatigue analysis in polysilicon MEMS
127 -- 134A. Emre Yarimbiyik, Harry A. Schafft, Richard A. Allen, Mark D. Vaudin, Mona E. Zaghloul. Experimental and simulation studies of resistivity in nanoscale copper films
135 -- 138Fernanda Irrera, Ivan Piccoli, Giuseppina Puzzilli, Massimo Rossini, Tommaso Vali. Reliability improvements in 50 nm MLC NAND flash memory using short voltage programming pulses
139 -- 149E. H. Wong, S. K. W. Seah, W. D. van Driel, J. F. J. M. Caers, N. Owens, Y.-S. Lai. Advances in the drop-impact reliability of solder joints for mobile applications
150 -- 162Xuefen Ong, Soon Wee Ho, Yue Ying Ong, Leong Ching Wai, Kripesh Vaidyanathan, Yeow Kheng Lim, David Yeo, Kai Chong Chan, Juan Boon Tan, Dong Kyun Sohn, Liang Choo Hsia, Zhong Chen. Underfill selection methodology for fine pitch Cu/low-k FCBGA packages
163 -- 169Yue-Tzu Yang, Huan-Sen Peng. Investigation of planted pin fins for heat transfer enhancement in plate fin heat sink
170 -- 177Xiaoxiao Liu, Guangsheng Ma, Jingbo Shao, Zhi Yang, Guanjun Wang. Interconnect crosstalk noise evaluation in deep-submicron technologies
178 -- 185M. Reza Javaheri, Reza Sedaghat. Multi-valued logic mapping of resistive short and open delay-fault testing in deep sub-micron technologies
186 -- 198Miljana Sokolovic, Vanco B. Litovski, Mark Zwolinski. New concepts of worst-case delay and yield estimation in asynchronous VLSI circuits
199 -- 208Seyyed Javad Seyyed Mahdavi, Karim Mohammadi. Evolutionary derivation of optimal test sets for neural network based analog and mixed signal circuits fault diagnosis approach
209 -- 214C. Cantin, C. Laviron, G. Gove. Charging control on high energy implanters: A process requirement demonstrated by plasma damage monitoring
215 -- 220C. Cantin, G. Gove, G. Polisski. Verification and reduction of surface charging during high/medium current implantations by implementing plasma damage monitoring

Volume 49, Issue 12

1405 -- 1406Vesselin K. Vassilev, Wolfgang Stadler. Editorial ESD reliability special section
1407 -- 1416Adrien Ille, Wolfgang Stadler, Thomas Pompl, Harald Gossner, Tilo Brodbeck, Kai Esmark, Philipp Riess, David Alvarez, Kiran V. Chatty, Robert Gauthier, Alain Bravaix. Reliability aspects of gate oxide under ESD pulse stress
1417 -- 1423David Alvarez, Kiran V. Chatty, Christian Russ, Michel J. Abou-Khalil, Junjun Li, Robert Gauthier, Kai Esmark, Ralph Halbach, Christopher Seguin. Design optimization of gate-silicided ESD NMOSFETs in a 45 nm bulk CMOS technology
1424 -- 1432Jean-Robert Manouvrier, Pascal Fonteneau, Charles-Alexandre Legrand, Pascal Nouet, Florence Azaïs. Characterization of the transient behavior of gated/STI diodes and their associated BJT in the CDM time domain
1433 -- 1439Guido Notermans, Olivier Quittard, Anco Heringa, Zeljko Mrcarica, Fabrice Blanc, Hans van Zwol, Theo Smedes, Thomas Keller, Peter C. de Jong. ESD robust high-voltage active clamps
1440 -- 1446D. Linten, S. Thijs, Jonathan Borremans, Morin Dehan, D. Trémouilles, M. Scholz, M. I. Natarajan, Piet Wambacq, Stefaan Decoutere, Guido Groeseneken. A plug-and-play wideband RF circuit ESD protection methodology: T-diodes
1447 -- 1454Farzan Farbiz, Elyse Rosenbaum. A new compact model for external latchup
1455 -- 1464Michael Heer, Krzysztof Domanski, Kai Esmark, Ulrich Glaser, Dionyz Pogany, Erich Gornik, Wolfgang Stadler. Transient interferometric mapping of carrier plasma during external transient latch-up phenomena in latch-up test structures and I/O cells processed in CMOS technology
1465 -- 1469Dejan M. Maksimovic, Fabrice Blanc, Guido Notermans, Theo Smedes, Thomas Keller. An ESD test reduction method for complex devices
1470 -- 1475Tilo Brodbeck, Kai Esmark, Wolfgang Stadler. CDM tests on interface test chips for the verification of ESD protection concepts
1476 -- 1481Heinrich Wolf, Horst A. Gieser, Dirk Walter. Investigating the CDM susceptibility of IC s at package and wafer level by capacitive coupled TLP
1483 -- 1490Lech Hasse, Alicja Konczakowska, Janusz Smulko. Classification of high-voltage varistors into groups of differentiated quality
1491 -- 1497N. Mohankumar, Binit Syamal, C. K. Sarkar. Investigation of novel attributes of single halo dual-material double gate MOSFETs for analog/RF applications
1503 -- 1507J. C. Sánchez, M. Estrada. Stability of the J-V characteristics of (BEHP-PPV)-co-(MEH-PPV) based light-emitting diodes
1508 -- 1514Servin Rathi, Jyotika Jogi, Mridula Gupta, R. S. Gupta. Modeling of hetero-interface potential and threshold voltage for tied and separate nanoscale InAlAs-InGaAs symmetric double-gate HEMT
1515 -- 1519Takayuki Hisaka, Hajime Sasaki, Yoichi Nogami, Kenji Hosogi, Naohito Yoshida, A. A. Villanueva, Jesús A. del Alamo, Shigehiko Hasegawa, Hajime Asahi. Corrosion-induced degradation of GaAs PHEMTs under operation in high humidity conditions
1520 -- 1528K.-H. Allers, J. Böck, S. Boguth, K. Goller, H. Knapp, R. Lachner. Dielectric thinning model applied to metal insulator metal capacitors with Al::2::O::3:: dielectric
1529 -- 1536Jianxin Zhu, Rencheng Song. Fast and stable computation of optical propagation in micro-waveguides with loss
1537 -- 1545M. Felczak, Boguslaw Wiecek, Gilbert De Mey. Optimal placement of electronic devices in forced convective cooling conditions
1546 -- 1554Liyu Yang, Joseph B. Bernstein, T. Koschmieder. Assessment of acceleration models used for BGA solder joint reliability studies
1555 -- 1562Meng-Fu Shih, Wen-Bin Young. Experimental study of filling behaviors in the underfill encapsulation of a flip-chip
1563 -- 1572Liyu Yang, Joseph B. Bernstein. Failure rate estimation of known failure mechanisms of electronic packages
1573 -- 1577Ravindra V. Kshirsagar, Rajendra M. Patrikar. Design of a novel fault-tolerant voter circuit for TMR implementation to improve reliability in digital circuits
1578 -- 1585Eduardas Bareisa, Vacius Jusas, Kestutis Motiejunas, Rimantas Seinauskas. Functional delay test generation based on software prototype
1586 -- 1596Kuei-Hu Chang. Evaluate the orderings of risk for failure problems using a more general RPN methodology

Volume 49, Issue 1

1 -- 7W. S. Lau, Peizhen Yang, Jason Zhiwei Chian, V. Ho, C. H. Loh, S. Y. Siah, L. Chan. Drain current saturation at high drain voltage due to pinch off instead of velocity saturation in sub-100 nm metal-oxide-semiconductor transistors
8 -- 12Chao Gao, Jun Wang, Lei Wang, Andrew Yap, Hong Li. Two-stage hot-carrier degradation behavior of 0.18 µm 18 V n-type DEMOS and its recovery effect
13 -- 16H. Wong, Y. Fu, J. J. Liou, Y. Yue. Hot-carrier reliability and breakdown characteristics of multi-finger RF MOS transistors
17 -- 25Yi Shan, John He, Wen Huang. New substrate-triggered ESD protection structures in a 0.18-µm CMOS process without extra mask
26 -- 31M. S. Rahman, E. K. Evangelou, I. I. Androulidakis, A. Dimoulas. 3 high-kappa gate stacks on germanium
32 -- 37Peter G. Muzykov, Robert M. Kennedy, Qingchun Zhang, Craig Capell, Al Burk, Anant Agarwal, Tangali S. Sudarshan. Physical phenomena affecting performance and reliability of 4H-SiC bipolar junction transistors
38 -- 41Jun Liu, W. S. Tam, H. Wong, V. Filip. Temperature-dependent light-emitting characteristics of InGaN/GaN diodes
42 -- 50Keun Ho Rhew, Su Chang Jeon, Dae Hee Lee, Byueng-Su Yoo, Ilgu Yun. Reliability assessment of 1.55-µm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers with tunnel junction using high-temperature aging tests
51 -- 58Reiner W. Kuehl. Stability of thin film resistors - Prediction and differences base on time-dependent Arrhenius law
59 -- 65Ta-Hsuan Lin, Stephen Paul, Susan Lu, Huitian Lu. A study on the performance and reliability of magnetostatic actuated RF MEMS switches
66 -- 73Haifei Bao, Zhaohui Song, Deren Lu, Xinxin Li. A simple estimation of transverse response of high-g accelerometers by a free-drop-bar method
74 -- 78V. Born, M. Beck, O. Bosholm, D. Dalleau, S. Glenz, I. Haverkamp, G. Kurz, F. Lange, A. Vest. Extended metallization reliability testing: Combining standard wafer level with product tests to increase test sensitivity
79 -- 85Fang Liu, Guang Meng, Mei Zhao, Jun-feng Zhao. Experimental and numerical analysis of BGA lead-free solder joint reliability under board-level drop impact
86 -- 91Weiqun Peng. An investigation of Sn pest in pure Sn and Sn-based solders
92 -- 98Kati Kokko, Hanna Harjunpää, Pekka Heino, Minna Kellomäki. Influence of medical sterilization on ACA flip chip joints using conformal coating
99 -- 102Sangwook Kwon, Jongseok Kim, Gilsu Park, Youngtack Hong, Byeongkwon Ju, Insang Song. RF device package method using Au to Au direct bonding technology