Numerical calculation of electromigration under pulse current with joule heating

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-77

  Li, Zhihong ^a   Wu, Guoying ^b   Wang, Yangyuan ^a   Li, Zhiguo ^b   Sun, Yinghua ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Electromigration; Interconnects; Reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTROMIGRATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

JOULE HEATING; PULSED DIRECTIONAL CURRENTS (PDC);

INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS;

EID: 0032736781     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.737443     Document Type: Article

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