Life-stress relationship for thin film transistor gate line interconnects on flexible substrates

Change in resistance of interconnect traces on flexible substrates is dependent on material properties and mechanical stress imposed by tensile strain. Dedicated test structures and a mechanical flexing / data collection system were designed and fabricated to collect time to failure data based on cyclic loading to different radii of curvature. We propose a life-stress model based on an inverse power law relationship defining the characteristic life of a Weibull life distribution.