Reliability and Failure of Electronic Materials and Devices

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Reliability is an important attribute of all engineering endeavors that conjures up

notions of dependability, trustworthiness, and confidence. It spells out a prescription

for competitiveness in manufacturing because the lack of reliability

means service failures that often result in inconvenience, personal injury, and

financial loss. More pointedly, our survival in a high-tech future increasingly

hinges on products based on microelectronics and optoelectronics where reliability

and related manufacturing concerns of defects, quality, and yield are of

critical interest. Despite their unquestioned importance these subjects are largely

ignored in engineering curricula. Industry compensates for this educational

neglect through on-the-job training. In the process, scientists and engineers of all

backgrounds are recast into reliability "specialists" with many different attitudes

toward reliability problems, and varied skills in solving them. The reliability

practitioner must additionally be a detective, a statistician, and a judge capable

of distinguishing between often conflicting data and strongly held opinions. This

book attempts to systematically weave together those strands that compose the

fabric of the training and practice of reliability engineers.