Guest Editorial TDMR IIRW Special Section

The IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW) is a distinctive event which brings together reliability researchers, professionals, and students from around the globe to a common forum for lively discussions, wonderful technical presentations, and beautiful scenery for 4 days and nights. The event takes place every year at Fallen Leaf Lake in South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, where attendees are housed within a secluded camp with informal meeting spaces and access to boats, trails, and many other outdoor activities. The scope of content centers around hot topics in, novel techniques for, and general knowledge on semiconductor reliability research and industry challenges. Talks on transistor and front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) reliability, bias temperature instability (BTI), hot carrier (HC), gate dielectric time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB), back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) reliability, Interconnect TDDB, electro-migration (EM), circuit reliability, packaging reliability, conventional and emerging memory reliability, failure analysis (FA), wafer-level reliability (WLR), among other topic are presented. The key focus areas at IIRW 2023 were Advanced node scaling solutions (FEOL/MOL/BEOL), circuit reliability (device-circuit degradation and aging).