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Standardized heat spreader design for passive cooling of interconnects in the BEOL of ICs

El Helou et al., 2020

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12940626996288202385
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El Helou A
Venugopal A
Raad P
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IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology

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The back-end components of integrated circuits (ICs) are susceptible to self-heating deteriorating effects due to the microscale interconnects carrying large current densities, and thus require innovative passive cooling strategies. This article investigates the cooling effect …
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