Merits,
attributes and challenges associated with the application of analytical
(mathematical) predictive modeling in electronics materials science and
engineering are addressed, based mostly on the author’s research during his
tenure with Basic Research, Bell Laboratories and then – with UC-Santa Cruz and
Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
The emphasis is on some
practically important, yet paradoxical (i.e., intuitively non-obvious),
materials reliability- related situations/ phenomena in electronics and optics.It is concluded that all the three basic approaches in Microelectronics and
Photonics Materials Science and Engineering - analytical (mathematical)
modeling, numerical modeling (simulation) and experimental investigations - are
equally important in understanding the physics of the materials behavior and in
designing, on this basis, viable and reliable electronic devices and products.
As they say, if your only tool is a hammer, all the problems look like nails to
you, do they not?
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