Search Results - "Thompson, C.V"
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Effects of forward gate bias stressing on the leakage current of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors
Published in Microelectronics and reliability (01-09-2019)“…Reliability of AlGaN/GaN-on-Si high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) under forward gate bias was studied. During stressing, devices were observed to…”
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Role of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) ON-state degradation
Published in Microelectronics and reliability (01-09-2016)“…We have investigated the influence of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) on their reliability…”
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Crack-like grain-boundary diffusion wedges in thin metal films
Published in Acta materialia (10-08-1999)“…Constrained grain-boundary diffusion in polycrystalline thin metal films on substrates is studied as a strongly coupled elasticity and grain-boundary diffusion…”
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Structural analysis of metalorganic chemical vapor deposited AIN nucleation layers on Si (1 1 1)
Published in Journal of crystal growth (01-08-2004)“…AlN nucleation layers are being investigated for growth of GaN on Si. The microstructures of high-temperature AlN nucleation layers on Si (1 1 1) substrates…”
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The yield stress of polycrystalline thin films
Published in Journal of materials research (01-02-1993)“…In recent experiments it has been shown that the yield stress of polycrystalline thin films depends separately on the film thickness and the grain size. It was…”
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Steady-state grain-size distributions resulting from grain growth in two dimensions
Published in Scripta materialia (23-04-1999)“…In order to develop a more detailed understanding of grain growth in bulk systems, there has been extensive modeling and simulation work on the simpler problem…”
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Phase-Change Materials in Optically Triggered Microactuators
Published in Journal of microelectromechanical systems (01-10-2008)“…Phase-change materials have been extensively used for optical data storage in commercial rewritable compact disks and digital video disks. These materials are…”
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Computer simulation of strain energy effects vs surface and interface energy effects on grain growth in thin films
Published in Acta materialia (01-06-1996)“…A computer simulation of grain growth in two dimensions has been used to model microstructural evolution in Ag (001)Ni thin films. Two orientation dependent…”
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Growth of giant grains in silver thin films
Published in Scripta materialia (30-08-1999)“…It is shown experimentally for annealed silver films that film thickness, grain size and texture are strongly related. It was found that three regimes of…”
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A hierarchical reliability analysis for circuit design evaluation
Published in IEEE transactions on electron devices (01-10-1998)“…We suggest a computationally efficient and flexible strategy for assessment of reliability of integrated circuits. The concept of hierarchical reliability…”
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Matching Glass-Forming Ability with the Density of the Amorphous Phase
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (19-12-2008)“…The density of the amorphous phase of metals is generally thought to be related to glass formation, but this correlation has not been demonstrated…”
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Competition between strain and interface energy during epitaxial grain growth in Ag films on Ni(001)
Published in Journal of materials research (01-09-1994)“…Epitaxial Grain Growth (EGG) is an orientation-selective process that can occur in polycrystalline thin films on single crystal substrates. EGG is driven by…”
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Preparation of (0 0 1)-oriented PZT thin films on silicon wafers using pulsed laser deposition
Published in Journal of crystal growth (01-05-2001)“…Completely (001)-oriented Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (PZT) thin films deposited on (100)-silicon wafers with SrTiO3 (STO)/MgO as a buffer layer system and YBCO as a…”
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Investigation of the role of pre-existing oxide in the initial degradation mechanism in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs under ON-state stress
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Methodology for electromigration critical threshold design rule evaluation
Published in IEEE transactions on computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems (1999)“…We propose a methodology using nodal analysis techniques compatible with existing computer-aided design (CAD) tools for implementing critical threshold design…”
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Impact of carbon impurities on the initial leakage current of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors
Published in Microelectronics and reliability (01-09-2018)“…We have systematically studied the origin of high gate-leakage currents in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). Devices that initially had a…”
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Improved reliability of AlGaN/GaN-on-Si high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) with high density silicon nitride passivation
Published in Microelectronics and reliability (01-09-2017)“…We have systematically studied the effects of SixN1−x passivation density on the reliability of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors. Upon stressing,…”
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Dislocation pile-ups as sites for formation of electromigration-induced transgranular slit-like voids in Al interconnects
Published in Scripta materialia (17-12-1999)“…Interaction of stress-relief induced crystallographic defecs with translating erosion voids to cause a transition to slit-like void shapes has been shown to be…”
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Characterisation of defects generated during constant current InGaN-on-silicon LED operation
Published in Microelectronics and reliability (01-09-2017)“…We studied the degradation of MOCVD-grown InGaN LEDs on Si substrates under constant current stressing. Characterisations using Deep Level Transient…”
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