Thermal Transient Response and Its Modeling for Joule Heating in Cu/Low-κ Interconnects Under Pulsed Current

Abstract

Solution scattering from iodine in different solvents is used to derive the crosscorrelation between iodine and the solvent. In parallel, molecular dynamics simulations are performed and the findings compared to the experimental results. The close correspondence shows that it is possible to describe the structural rearrangements of the solvent around a solute molecule. Timeresolved studies of photoexcited molecules will therefore allow one to study the relaxations of the solute as well as the solvent molecules.