Category: Manufacturing
Manufacturing
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Interconnect @ 7 nm
IC interconnect is supposed to do two things: provided a path for electrons with as little resistance as possible and ensure that different paths don’t…
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Cleaning Up After You
This is something of a more off-the-beaten path story that I ran into at Semicon West. I talked with a German company called DAS that…
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What Is “Good” Yield?
In a recent piece on antenna tuning, I addressed circuit and MEMS approaches, and one of the advantages of circuits was said to be better…
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New Process Modeling Mechanism
Simulation is all about using the simplest possible modeling technique that gives enough accuracy to make the results useful. Simplicity typically speeds up simulation –…
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Diamond Windows
It’s funny that, as all things silicon shrink and we look forward to alternatives, we’re getting used to hearing about carbon as a regular material…
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Room-Temp Covalent Wafer Bonding
MEMS elements are delicate. They sit there in their little cavities, expecting to operate in some sort of controlled environment – perhaps a particular gas…
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The Scribe and the Princess and the Pea
OK, perhaps “scribe line” is more accurate, but I do love a double entendre (even if not salacious). I had a discussion with KLA-Tencor at…
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Dry Etch Edges Wet
Two announcements have come out recently regarding dry etch systems. Now… dry etch is nothing new. Although it is newer than wet etch, which is…
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Simultaneous alternative views
Embedded vision systems are providing more opportunities for machines to see the world in the same way that our eyes see them (and our brains…