Thermal Stress and Reliability Analysis of TSV-Based 3-D ICs With a Novel Adaptive Strategy Finite Element Method.

Thermomechanical stress is one of the most important issues in performance and reliability analysis of through silicon via-based 3-D integrated circuits (3-D ICs), where an accurate numerical approach is generally needed to produce stress models and identify weak points in the structure. In this paper, we propose a knowledge-oriented nonuniform (KONU) refinement strategy for 3-D IC stress simulati...