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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2007
Giovanni Fiorenza, Pomona, NY (US);
Conal E. Murray, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Kenneth P. Rodbell, Sandy Hook, NY (US);
Henry Tang, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Giovanni Fiorenza, Pomona, NY (US);
Conal E. Murray, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Kenneth P. Rodbell, Sandy Hook, NY (US);
Henry Tang, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of determining a stopping power of a design structure with respect to a traveling particle. The method includes (i) providing design information of the design structure comprising a back-end-of-line layer which includes N interconnect layers, N being a positive integer, (ii) dividing each interconnect layer of the N interconnect layers into multiple pixels, and (iii) determining a first path of the traveling particle in a first interconnect layer of the N interconnect layers, (iv) identifying M path pixels of the multiple pixels of the first interconnect layer on the first path of the traveling particle, M being a positive integer, and (v) determining a first loss energy lost by the traveling particle due to its completely passing through a first pixel of the M path pixels.