Transient electro-thermal simulation of microsystems with space-continuous thermal models in an analogue behavioural simulator

Microelectronics Reliability

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 507-516

  Jakovljevic, Mirko ^a   Mrcarica, Zeljko ^b   Fotiu, Peter A ^c   Detter, Helmut ^a   Litovski, Vanco ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WIENER NEUSTADT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROELECTRONIC PROCESSING;

ELECTROTHERMAL SIMULATION; MICROSYSTEMS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0033894398     PISSN: 00262714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0026-2714(99)00251-6     Document Type: Article

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