Implementing Thermal Laser and Photoelectric Laser Stimulation in a failure analysis laboratory

First Photoelectric Laser Stimulation results (OBIC or LIVA) obtained with an upgraded version of a PHEMOS 1000 from Hamamatsu are presented. This technique is applied in a case study concerning ESD defect localization and is compared to the Thermal Laser Stimulation one.

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