RELIABILITY PHYSICS TUTORIALS 

Two days, (Two registration choices & Two sets of Tutorial Notes)
Sunday and Monday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., April 7-8

Tutorial Tracks : 

Sunday, April 7 

TUTORIAL TRACK: Reliability Fundamentals

Room: Landmark A 
111.  Introduction to Semiconductor Reliability
Tim Rost & Vijay Reddy, Texas Instruments 
abstract
(8:00 – 11:30) 
112.  Characterization, Physical Modeling and Assessment of Gate Oxide Reliability
Eric Vogel, NIST 
abstract
(1:30 – 3:00) 
113.  ESD Basics
Charvaka Duvvury, Texas Instruments
abstract
(3:30 – 5:00) 

 

Room: Landmark B
121.   Radiation Induced Soft Errors in Silicon Components & Computer Systems 
(8:00 – 5:00) ...continuing into a Sunday evening workshop on this topic 
   organized under the direction of Robert Baumann, Texas Instruments & Jose Maiz, Intel
Intro Workshop Objectives & Agenda. Jose Maiz, Intel 8:00 - 8:15
121.01 Soft Errors in Commercial Semiconductor Technology:Overview and Scaling Trends—Robert Baumann, Texas Instruments
abstract
8:15 - 9:00
121.02 Memory Devices Share of System SER—Guenter Schindlbeck, Infineon Technologies
abstract
9:00 - 9:30
121.03 Accelerated Testing for Cosmic Ray Soft-Error Rates in Computer Systems—Richard Adkisson, HP
abstract
10:00 - 10:30
121.04 Impact of Technology Scaling and Logic Design Style on the Core Logic SER of Microprocessors—Norbert Seifert, Compact Computers
abstract
10:30 - 11:00
121.05 Low Activity Alpha Particle Detection—Mike Tucker,Alpha Sciences Inc
abstract
11:00 - 11:20
121.06 New Method for Determining Ultra Low Alpha Emission Levels—Rhys Thomas, Inovatia Labs
abstract
11:20 - 11:40
121.07 CMOS Soft Errors and Server Design—Douglas Bossen, IBM
abstract
11:40 - 12:10
121.08 A Kind and Gentler Guide to Soft Error Rate—Hang Nguyen, Intel
abstract
1:30 - 2:00
121.09 Memory SER Concerns For Future Server Applications—Charles Slayman, Sun Microsystems
abstract
2:00 - 2:30
121.10 Comparison of Soft Errors in Protected and Unprotected Processors—Peter Rohr, iROC Technologies
abstract
2:30 - 3:00
121.11 Mitigation Methods for Soft-Errors and Related Phenomena in Spacecraft—Allan Johnston JPL
abstract
3:30 - 4:00
121.12 Mitigation of Single-Event effects in Mission-Critical Systems—Paul Dodd & Fred Sexton, Sandia National Labs
abstract
4:00 - 4:30
Summary—Jose Maiz, Intel 4:30 - 4:45

7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. SER PANEL DISCUSSION—Moderator Jose Maiz


Room: Landmark C
131.  Errors and Reliability 
Kristof Croes, XPEQT, and Luc Tielemans
abstract
(8:00 – 9:30) 
132.  Trends in Failure Analysis
Larry Wagner, Texas Instruments 
(10:00 – 11:30) 
133.  New Phenomena in the Device Reliability Physics of Advanced Submicron CMOS Technologies (NBTI)
Giuseppe La Rosa, IBM 
abstract
(1:30 – 5:00) 

Room: Landmark D
141.  The basics of Electromigration with a view towards Cu dual-damascene reliability
Ennis Ogawa, Texas Instruments 
abstract
(8:00 – 9:30) 
142.  Introduction to Predictive Wafer Level Reliability
Eric Snyder, Sandia Technologies 
abstract
(10:00 – 11:30) 
143.  Defect Reliability Statistics with Redundancy
Glenn Shirley, Intel 
abstract
(1:30 – 3:00) 



Monday April 8

TUTORIAL TRACK: Topics in Advanced Reliability

Room: Landmark A
211.  Reliability Issues for Advanced Silicon Technologies
Anthony S. Oates, Agere 
abstract
(8:00 – 11:30) 
212.  Microstructure, Processing and Reliability of Cu-Based Interconnect Structures
John Sanchez, AMD 
(1:30 – 3:00)
213.  ESD Protection and Failure mechanisms in RF Technology
Steven Voldman, IBM 
abstract
(3:30 – 5:00) 

Room: Landmark B
221.  Gate Oxide Reliability
Paul Nicolian, Texas Instruments 
abstract
(8:00 – 9:30) 
222.  Antenna Charging (PID)
Srikanth Krishnan and Anand Krishnan, Texas Instruments 
(10:00 – 11:30) 
223.  Atomic Scale Defects Involved in MOS Reliability Problems
Pat Lenahan, Penn State 
abstract
(1:30 – 3:00) 
224.  Trap Generation Phenomena in Thin Dielectrics under Electrical Stress
Gennadi Bersuker, SEMATECH 
abstract
(3:30 – 5:00)

Room: Landmark C
231.  Raman Spectroscopy
Ingrid DeWolf, IMEC 
abstract
(8:00 – 9:30) 
232.  Next Generation Imaging
Gay Samuelson, Intel 
abstract
(10:00 – 11:30) 
233.  Designing MEMS/MOEMS for Reliability
Susanne Arney et al., Lucent 
abstract
(1:30 – 5:00)

Room: Landmark D
241.  Silicon Analog/Mixed Signal Technology Reliability
Jae-Sung Rieh & Fernando Guarin, IBM 
abstract
(8:00 – 9:30) 
242.  Ferroelectric Material and Device Reliability
Domokos Hadnagy, Ramtron 
abstract
(10:00 – 11:30) 
243.  Determination of GaAs MMIC Reliability
Ken Decker, Triquint Semiconductor 
abstract
(1:30 – 3:00) 
244.  HBT
Tim Henderson, Triquint Semiconductor 
abstract
(3:30 – 5:00)