US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Laser-induced hot carrier injection (HCI) for accelerated aging of integrated circuits" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,545, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Laser-induced hot carrier injection (HCI) for accelerated aging of integrated circuits" was invented by Ricardo Ascazubi (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Georgia Modoran (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser-assisted integrated circuit (IC) device testing apparatus capable of inducing hot carrier injection (HCI) within selected transistors of an IC device. A laser source of sufficiently high output power (e.g., 1 W) and short pulse duration (e.g., 100 fs) can generate enough hot carriers through a multi-photon (e.g., TPA) carrier injection mechanism to si...