A Delaware bankruptcy court has approved the sale of Electroglas' wafer probe assets, including name and trademarks, to private financial group EG Systems -- formed specifically for this purpose.
September 14, 2009 - KLA-Tencor exec Dan Lopez gives SST a preview of its new Teron 600 Series mask defect inspection system, with programmable scanner-illumination capability and improvements in sensitivity and computational lithography power to address a major transition in mask design at the 2Xnm logic (3Xnm half-pitch memory) node.
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Dual Channel Pulse Testing Simplifies RF Transistor Characterization
Device engineers and test managers are under tremendous pressure to make sure products get to market quickly and perform reliably. This is especially true of RF ... Sponsored By:
Keithley Instruments
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High Precision Ion Beam Milling with Time of Flight Compensation
Advanced circuit editing (CE) becomes more and more difficult as semiconductor structures shrink. Time of Flight (ToF) compensation noticeably extends the utility ... Sponsored By:
FEI Company
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Backside Circuit Edit on Full-Thickness Silicon Devices
Backside Circuit Edit (CE) techniques, in which a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) operator accesses critical circuitry through the substrate of an IC, are popular with processor ... Sponsored By:
FEI Company
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Recent Developments in TEM Applications for the IC Industry
Scaling ICs to the 45-nanometer node or beyond requires precise measurement of film thickness, interfacial roughness, and chemical distribution. At those nodes, ... Sponsored By:
FEI Company
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A New Method of Wafer-Level Plan-View TEM Sample Preparation by DualBeam
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is extremely important for obtaining high-resolution images with high materials contrast. Until now, plan-view TEM samples ... Sponsored By:
FEI Company
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