Lifetime of high-k gate dielectrics and analogy with strength of quasibrittle structures
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structures Jia-Liang Le, Zdeněk P. Bažant, and Martin Z. Bazant Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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