Mechanical Behavior of Materials in Microelectronic and Fiber Optic Structures: Application of Analytical Modeling - Review

Microelectronics (ME) and Fiber-Optics (FO) - two major "high- technology" areas - are an overlapping of manu scientific and engineering disciplines, such as Physics, Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, and, of course, Materials Science. An important branch of this science deals with mechanical properties, mechanical behavior and and mechanical performance of materials, and uses methods and approaches of both Materials Science and Engineering Mechanics to evaluate materials and structures.