Advanced Analytical Chemistry Techniques Enable Rapid, Cheap and Concise Electronic Failure Analysis

摘要

As the world of electronics grows ever smaller and more complex, chemists and physicists are finding a niche in the world of electronic failure analysis. Techniques normally used for drug screening, polymer design and chemical bonding studies are now being used to analyze system wide failures in computers and other microelectronic devices. The benefits of these techniques include low expense, rapid turn around time and definitive answers. As we move into the world of nanotechnology, these techniques will become key in analyzing failures that cannot be visualized using traditional FA methods.