Summary : Dry processing methods are chemical processes that use a plasma to drive the reaction. Dry etching is the major segment of dry processing. Today, virtually all etching processes are dry processes. Typically, a chemical reactive gas, physical abrasion or a combination of the two are used to perform this process. Etching occurs after the resist processing stage. It involves the selective removal of films not covered by the photoresist to form interconnects, contacts and vias. The type of films ... See More
AMD's and Intel's can be traced back to Fairchild and Shockley Transistor with t ...
AMD's and Intel's can be traced back to Fairchild and Shockley Transistor with this genealogy of semiconductor start-ups in Silicon Valley. The poster was created by SEMI poster. It shows the history of semicon ... See more
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Ri ...
The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age. Michael Riordan, co-author of Crystal Fire, discusses how it came to be. ... See more
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconducto ...
Tencor (later evolved to be KLA - Tencor) is in the bedrock of the semiconductor equipment industry. It developed many products that were essential to chip manufacturing. Some are still made today. ... See more
Lithography has long been regarded as the queen of wafer fabrication in the driv ...
Lithography has long been regarded as the queen of wafer fabrication in the drive towards submicron geometries. But, in recent years problems with depth-of-focus and materials have limited lithography's ability ... See more
Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life and eco ...
Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life and economic growth for the world as a whole from the fruits brought by semiconductor technology through a 2005 lens. ... See more
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be disprove ...
Crashing into Moore's Wall is like a conspiracy theory: it can never be disproved to the true believers that our industry is about to run into a wall that has never appeared. Back in the mid-nineties, Scientifi ... See more
Automatic Test Systems (ATS) encompass a broad range of equipment-in size and in ...
Automatic Test Systems (ATS) encompass a broad range of equipment-in size and in function as well as in price. It includes all equipment that is used to electrically verify a device's functionality. VLSI Resear ... See more
Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though th ...
Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though this equipment is not used to directly manufacture devices, it serves to verify consistent and in-control manufacturing processes. ... See more
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