Overview
- Provides the first handbook to cover all aspects of compound semiconductor device reliability
- Systematically describes research results on reliability and materials issues of both optical and electron devices developed since 2000
- Covers characterization techniques needed to understand failure mechanisms in compound semiconductor devices
- Includes experimental approaches in reliability studies
- Presents case studies of laser degradation and HEMT degradation
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Materials Issues and Reliability of Optical Devices
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Front Matter
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Materials Issues and Reliability of Electron Devices
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors
- Devices failure analysis
- Devices reliability
- Electrical devices degradation failure
- Electronic device reliability
- Failure Analysis of Semiconductor Optical Devices
- GaN Device Passivation
- InGaN Laser Diode Degradation
- Materials Issues and Reliability of Electron Devices
- Materials reliability book
- Optical Evaluation Technique (OBIC)
- Optical devices degradation failure
- Reliability Simulation
- Reliability Testing Semiconductor Optical Devices
- Semiconductor Optical Devices, Reliability Testing
- Semiconductor devices failure
- Strain Effects in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs
About this book
Materials and Reliability Handbook for Semiconductor Optical and Electron Devices provides comprehensive coverage of reliability procedures and approaches for electron and photonic devices. These include lasers and high speed electronics used in cell phones, satellites, data transmission systems and displays. Lifetime predictions for compound semiconductor devices are notoriously inaccurate due to the absence of standard protocols. Manufacturers have relied on extrapolation back to room temperature of accelerated testing at elevated temperature. This technique fails for scaled, high current density devices. Device failure is driven by electric field or current mechanisms or low activation energy processes that are masked by other mechanisms at high temperature.
The Handbook addresses reliability engineering for III-V devices, including materials and electrical characterization, reliability testing, and electronic characterization. These are used to develop new simulation technologies for device operation and reliability, which allow accurate prediction of reliability as well as the design specifically for improved reliability. The Handbook emphasizes physical mechanisms rather than an electrical definition of reliability. Accelerated aging is useful only if the failure mechanism is known. The Handbook also focuses on voltage and current acceleration stress mechanisms.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Materials and Reliability Handbook for Semiconductor Optical and Electron Devices provides comprehensive coverage of reliability procedures and approaches for modern electron and photonic devices. These devices include lasers and high speed electronics used in all aspects of our lives, from cell phones to satellites, data transmission systems and displays. Lifetime prediction for compound semiconductor device operation is notoriously inaccurate due to the fragmented efforts in reliability and the absence of standard protocols. Manufacturers have usually relied on accelerated testing at elevated temperature and then extrapolated back to room temperature operation. This technique frequently fails for scaled, high current density devices. Device failure is driven by electric field or current mechanisms or low activation energy processes that are masked by other mechanisms at high temperature. Device degradation can be driven by failure in either active structures or passivation layers.
The Handbook addresses reliability engineering for III-V device structures, including materials and electrical characterization, reliability testing, and electronic characterization. These last techniques are used to develop new simulation technologies for device operation and reliability, which in turn allow accurate prediction of reliability as well as the design of structures specifically for improved reliability of operation. Given that a relatively small percentage of devices will actually show failure, it is critical to both enhance the failure rate through accelerated testing and to treat the resulting reliability data correctly. For this reason, the Handbook emphasizes physical mechanisms rather than an electrical definition of reliability. In other words, accelerated aging is useful only if we know the failure mechanism. Also covered are standard Si reliability approaches to determine the instantaneous failure rate and mean time to failure and therefore the distribution functions of greatest relevance to the specific device technology. Furthermore, the Handbook focuses attention on voltage and current acceleration stress mechanisms.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Materials and Reliability Handbook for Semiconductor Optical and Electron Devices
Editors: Osamu Ueda, Stephen J. Pearton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4337-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4336-0
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0119-7
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4337-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 616
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Electronic Circuits and Devices, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials