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
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
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predict ...
The History of the invention of the Integrated Circuit. Why it wasn't so predictable. Corporate culture played no small part in influencing how a small west coast start-up named Fairchild and a company that mad ... See more
Wafer fabrication equipment consists of all those types of equipment used in mak ...
Wafer fabrication equipment consists of all those types of equipment used in making and processing raw wafers in forming the finished chips-whether they be discretes or integrated circuits. This segment also in ... See more
Bonding and inspection has historically been overlooked by upper management in s ...
Bonding and inspection has historically been overlooked by upper management in semiconductor companies. Their attention has been drawn by the enormous capital requirements of wafer fabrication. However, this ... See more
There are two essential applications for semiconductor lithography equipment. Th ...
There are two essential applications for semiconductor lithography equipment. They are lumped together here under the name 'microlithography and mask making'. The two segments consist of mask-making equipment a ... See more
This section examines the vendors who supply semiconductor manufacturing equipm ...
This section examines the vendors who supply semiconductor manufacturing equipment. There are approximately 534 of them. The top five are shown below in Figure 2.0.0-1. In 1989, these five companies held a 26 ... See more
Section 4.8 covers that equipment which does not fit in the other wafer fabricat ...
Section 4.8 covers that equipment which does not fit in the other wafer fabrication equipment categories. VLSI Research now includes two new segments under the Other Equipment classification. These segments are ... 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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