Guidebook for Managing Silicon Chip Reliability
Guidebook for Managing Silicon Chip Reliability

Author: Michael Pecht

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1351443569

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Achieving cost-effective performance over time requires an organized, disciplined, and time-phased approach to product design, development, qualification, manufacture, and in-service management. Guidebook for Managing Silicon Chip Reliability examines the principal failure mechanisms associated with modern integrated circuits and describes common practices used to resolve them. This quick reference on semiconductor reliability addresses the key question: How will the understanding of failure mechanisms affect the future? Chapters discuss: failure sites, operational loads, and failure mechanism intrinsic device sensitivities electromigration hot carrier aging time dependent dielectric breakdown mechanical stress induced migration alpha particle sensitivity electrostatic discharge (ESD) and electrical overstress latch-up qualification screening guidelines for designing reliability Guidebook for Managing Silicon Chip Reliability focuses on device failure and causes throughout - providing a thorough framework on how to model the mechanism, test for defects, and avoid and manage damage. It will serve as an exceptional resource for electrical engineers as well as mechanical engineers working in the field of electronic packaging.

Reliability and Radiation Effects in Compound Semiconductors
Reliability and Radiation Effects in Compound Semiconductors

Author: Allan H. Johnston

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 981427710X

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This book discusses reliability and radiation effects in compound semiconductors, which have evolved rapidly during the last 15 years. Johnston's perspective in the book focuses on high-reliability applications in space, but his discussion of reliability is applicable to high reliability terrestrial applications as well. The book is important because there are new reliability mechanisms present in compound semiconductors that have produced a great deal of confusion. They are complex, and appear to be major stumbling blocks in the application of these types of devices. Many of the reliability problems that were prominent research topics five to ten years ago have been solved, and the reliability of many of these devices has been improved to the level where they can be used for ten years or more with low failure rates. There is also considerable confusion about the way that space radiation affects compound semiconductors. Some optoelectronic devices are so sensitive to damage in space that they are very difficult to use, and have caused failures in operating spacecraft. Others are far more robust. Johnston admirably clarifies the reasons for these differences in this landmark book.

Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits
Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits

Author: Tho T Vu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003-04-02

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 9814486434

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This is the book version of a special issue of the International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems, reviewing recent work in the field of compound semiconductor integrated circuits. There are fourteen invited papers covering a wide range of applications, frequencies and materials. These papers deal with digital, analog, microwave and millimeter-wave technologies, devices and integrated circuits for wireline fiber-optic lightwave transmissions, and wireless radio-frequency microwave and millimeter-wave communications. In each case, the market is young and experiencing rapid growth for both commercial and millitary applications. Many new semiconductor technologies compete for these new markets, leading to an alphabet soup of semiconductor materials described in these papers. The book also includes three papers focused on radiation effects and reliability in III-V semiconductor electronics, which are useful for reference and future directions. Moreover, reliability is covered in several papers separately for certain process technologies.

Physical Limitations of Semiconductor Devices
Physical Limitations of Semiconductor Devices

Author: Vladislav A. Vashchenko

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-03-22

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0387745149

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Providing an important link between the theoretical knowledge in the field of non-linier physics and practical application problems in microelectronics, the purpose of the book is popularization of the physical approach for reliability assurance. Another unique aspect of the book is the coverage given to the role of local structural defects, their mathematical description, and their impact on the reliability of the semiconductor devices.