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Non-Ohmic Contact Failure in ICs
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For memory ICs (integrated circuits), electrical opens can be caused by dangling contacts of bitlines and PMOS [1,2] and are normally on the order of a tenth of a micron or larger.

 

 

 

[1] Z.G. Song, G. Qian, J.Y. Dai, Z.R. Guo, S.K. Loh, C.S. Teh, S. Redkar, Application of contact-level ion-beam induced passive voltage contrast in failure analysis of static random access memory, in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, IPFA, Singapore, 2001, p. 103.
[2] C.S. Teh, Z.G. Song, J.Y. Dai, Z.R. Guo, S. Redkar, Polyresidue-induced contact failure in 0.18 lm technology, in: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits, IPFA, Singapore, 2001, p. 117.

 

 

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