Field discontinuity refinement criteria and optimal discretizations in adaptive finite-element electromagnetic analysis for microelectronic system interconnections

Author

Giannacopoulos, Dennis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

Volume

39

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1658

Lastpage

1661

Abstract

The effectiveness of field-discontinuity refinement criteria for achieving optimal finite element discretizations is investigated. The criteria are first examined directly with finite-element solutions computed from optimally discretized systems. Subsequently, the optimality of the criteria are evaluated for practical adaptive finite-element electromagnetic analysis of principal device features in modern microelectronic system interconnection structures.

Keywords

adaptive systems; finite element analysis; integrated circuit interconnections; adaptive finite-element electromagnetic analysis; field discontinuity refinement criteria; interconnection structures; microelectronic system interconnections; optimal discretizations; principal device features; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Design automation; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic modeling; Error analysis; Finite element methods; Microelectronics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2003.810383

Filename

1198549