El Helou et al., 2020 - Google Patents
Standardized heat spreader design for passive cooling of interconnects in the BEOL of ICsEl Helou et al., 2020
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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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