Category: Manufacturing
Manufacturing
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Germanium at IEDM
There’s lots of interest in using germanium in pFETs to improve the symmetry between n- and p-channel devices in a CMOS inverter. But integrating it…
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What Makes LEDs Different?
Earlier this month, KLA-Tencor released their ICOS WI-2280 inspection tool for LEDs. Reading through all the things it does and the improvements in provides –…
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MEMS: Unloved?
Karen has been feeling unloved. That would be Karen Lightman, managing director of the MEMS Industry Group. After several years of MEMS taking a share…
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And the Ecosystem Starts
In today’s discussion of the move to 450-mm wafers, we looked at one of the first pieces of equipment that will initiate the entire development…
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EUV Movement Towards HVM
When last we talked with Cymer, they had just announced their PrePulse technology that gets more of the energy out of the droplets they blast…
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450 In Belgium
Changing wafer size is a big deal. You can kiss all your old equipment good-bye and usher in a whole new suite. So what happens…
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Sixty years plus
Almost every presentation that I go to talks about the fast moving development cycle and the rapid obsolescence of products. So it was a real…
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Ready for More Inspection
Not long ago we covered a set of inspection tools announced by KLA-Tencor. They have recently announced yet another inspection tool, which they call CIRCL.…
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News from the Inside
We all know that process control is everything. And this is true more than ever before at each node. That is, if there is a…
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Write Once, Read Many
When a foundry prepares a process for a designer to use, it’s got to communicate how that process works and how it can be used.…