8.08 - Reliability of Metal Interconnects

Comprehensive Structural Integrity: Nine Volume Set

Volumn 1-9, Issue , 2003, Pages 265-324

  Suo, Z ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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