Design and Fabrication of a Multi-Functional Programmable Thermal Test Chip

This paper focuses on the design and fabrication of a new programmable thermal test chip as a flexible and cost-effective solution for simplification of characterization/prototyping of new packages. The cell-based design format makes the chip fit into any modular array configuration. One unit cell is as small as 4x4 mm2, including 6 individually...

Experimental Study on Electromigration by Using Blech Structure

In the advanced semiconductor industry, modern electronic devices are expected to realize complex functions with minimized size, which requires an increase in the density of on-chip interconnects. To meet this demand, the dimension of interconnects is reduced and it requires the narrowing of metal interconnects to carry the increasing current...

Assessment of the Suitability of NB-IoT Technology for ORM in Smart Grids

In this paper, we assess the suitability of NB-IoT (Narrowband Internet of Things) cellular technology for smart grid applications, concentrating on the reliable and timely delivery of Outage Restoration Management (ORM) messages at the event of a local or regional power outage. Using system-level simulations modelling of both the cellular NB...

Effects of Graphene Monolayer Coating on the Optical Performance of Remote Phosphors

A graphene monolayer has been successfully coated on one side of a bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (BPA-PC) plate, used as a substrate for remote phosphor applications in light-emitting diode (LED)-based products. Using a photoresist transferring method, graphene sheet has been coated on BPA-PC plates. The results show that this graphene monolayer...

A Reliability Prediction for Integrated LED Lamp with Electrolytic Capacitor-Free Driver

This paper studies the interaction of catastrophic failure of the driver and LED luminous flux decay for an integrated LED lamp with an electrolytic capacitor-free LED driver. Electronic thermal simulations are utilized to obtain the lamp's dynamic history of temperature and current for two distinct operation modes: constant current mode (CCM...