Materials Reliability in Microelectronics VIII, Volume 516

Reliability concerns have forced interconnect systems to scale more slowly than devices. As a result, reliability engineers and scientists are now responsible for much of the performance and lifetime gains anticipated in the microelectronics industry. To achieve these gains, the interconnect must be viewed as a complex system with many types of reliability issues. A critical understanding of electromigration, stress-induced voiding, mechanical integrity, thermal performance, chemical effects,…