Extraction of material parameters based on inverse modeling of three-dimensional interconnect fusing structures

An approach for determining higher order coefficients of the electrical and thermal conductivities for different materials is presented. The method is based on inverse modeling using three-dimensional transient electrothermal finite element simulations for electrothermal investigations of complex layered structures, for instance polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) fuses or other multi-layered devices. The simulations are performed with a three-dimensional interconnect simulator, which is automatically configured and controlled by an optimization framework. Our method is intended to be applied to optimize devices with different material compositions and geometries as well as for achieving an optimum of speed and reliability. q 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.