Thermoreflectance temperature imaging of integrated circuits: calibration technique and quantitative comparison with integrated sensors and simulations

Camera-based thermoreflectance microscopy is a unique tool for high spatial resolution thermal imaging of working integrated circuits. However, a calibration is necessary to obtain quantitative temperatures on the complex surface of integrated circuits. The spatial and temperature resolutions reache...

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Published in:Journal of physics. D, Applied physics Applied physics, 2006-10, Vol.39 (19), p.4159-4166
Main Authors: Tessier, G, Polignano, M-L, Pavageau, S, Filloy, C, Fournier, D, Cerutti, F, Mica, I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Design. Technologies. Operation analysis. Testing
Diodes
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
Imaging devices
Integrated circuits
Semiconductor electronics. Microelectronics. Optoelectronics. Solid state devices
Thermoelectric, pyroelectric devices, etc
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Summary:Camera-based thermoreflectance microscopy is a unique tool for high spatial resolution thermal imaging of working integrated circuits. However, a calibration is necessary to obtain quantitative temperatures on the complex surface of integrated circuits. The spatial and temperature resolutions reached by thermoreflectance are excellent (360 nm and 2.5 X 10-2 K in 1 min here), but the precision is more difficult to assess, notably due to the lack of comparable thermal techniques at submicron scales. We propose here a Peltier element control of the whole package temperature in order to obtain calibration coefficients simultaneously on several materials visible on the surface of the circuit. Under high magnifications, movements associated with thermal expansion are corrected using a piezo electric displacement and a software image shift. This calibration method has been validated by comparison with temperatures measured using integrated thermistors and diodes and by a finite volume simulation. We show that thermoreflectance measurements agree within a precision of +/-2.3% with the on-chip sensors measurements. The diode temperature is found to underestimate the actual temperature of the active area by almost 70% due to the thermal contact of the diode with the substrate, acting as a heat sink.
ISSN:0022-3727
1361-6463
DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/39/19/007