Title :
Analysis of Electrical Overstress Failures
Author_Institution :
Reliability Branch, Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss AFB NY 13441
Abstract :
Electrical overstress microcircuit failures are a major cause of equipment malfunction. Visual cues for bidentifying overstress failures are discussed. In addition means for determining the current, voltage and pulse width magnitudes of the transient pulse which caused the failure are explained.
Keywords :
Annealing; Contacts; Degradation; Electric variables; Failure analysis; Inspection; Metallization; Optical microscopy; Silicon; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability Physics Symposium, 1973. 11th Annual
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV, USA
DOI :
10.1109/IRPS.1973.362579