Blowing polysilicon fuses

William Lee; Oliver Power; Andrew Fowler; Sandra Healey; John Browne

doi:10.1063/1.3241370

Blowing polysilicon fuses

William Lee, Oliver Power, Andrew Fowler, Sandra Healey, John Browne

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Polysilicon fuses are micron sized components of silicon chips. Unlike conventional fuses, they are blown as an irreversible programming step. They are used to isolate circuitry, to tune performance or to specialise the device. A fuse must be blown by applying a precise voltage which currently can only be determined by lengthly experimentation. A mathematical model of the blowing process could be used to eliminate the experimental step reducing the development time needed for new devices. We report progress towards a model describing the electronic, thermodynamic and fluid mechanical aspects of fuse blowing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009
Pages	1461-1464
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3241370
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009 - Rethymno, Crete, Greece Duration: 18 Sep 2009 → 22 Sep 2009

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Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1168
ISSN (Print)	0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)	1551-7616

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Rethymno, Crete
Period	18/09/09 → 22/09/09

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Lee, W, Power, O, Fowler, A, Healey, S & Browne, J 2009, Blowing polysilicon fuses. in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009. AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1168, pp. 1461-1464, International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 18/09/09. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3241370

Blowing polysilicon fuses. / Lee, William; Power, Oliver; Fowler, Andrew et al.
Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2009, ICNAAM-2009. 2009. p. 1461-1464 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1168).

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