Power-cycling of DMOS-switches triggers thermo-mechanical failure mechanisms

In this article the failure behavior of DMOS-switches under power-cycle stress is shown to be dominated by thermo-mechanical deformation of the metallization. The failure evolves without a significant influence from electromigration stress.

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