{"title":"Characterization of a new designed octahedron slotted metal track by simulations","authors":"J. Kludt, K. Weide-Zaage, M. Ackermann, V. Hein","doi":"10.1109/EUROSIME.2013.6529907","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Highly robust metallizations in ICs for high temperature and high current applications are needed. Special thick metal layers often known as “power metals” are added to achieve a higher current capability. But these metallizations suffer from reliability limitations as well. Therefore a new design for “power metals” was created for a 0.35μm aluminium CMOS process. The reliability of a new power metal structure is investigated in this article. A determination of the thermal-electrical and thermo-mechanical behaviour is carried out by simulations.","PeriodicalId":270532,"journal":{"name":"2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)","volume":"343 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 14th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROSIME.2013.6529907","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Highly robust metallizations in ICs for high temperature and high current applications are needed. Special thick metal layers often known as “power metals” are added to achieve a higher current capability. But these metallizations suffer from reliability limitations as well. Therefore a new design for “power metals” was created for a 0.35μm aluminium CMOS process. The reliability of a new power metal structure is investigated in this article. A determination of the thermal-electrical and thermo-mechanical behaviour is carried out by simulations.