Electronic devices have become an indispensable part of our lives in our technology-driven world. These devices owe their existence to a crucial component known as the semiconductor wafer. In this ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

This higher density of circuitry on a wafer requires greater accuracy and a highly fragile and advanced fabrication process. Several newer and highly complex ICs today are made of a dozen or more ...

Rapidus Corp., a Tokyo-based chip manufacturing startup, reportedly plans to build a fab capable of making 1.4-nanometer processors.

Texas Instruments (www.ti.com) recently announced that it is expanding RFAB, its 300-mm analog wafer fab in Richardson, TX, in order to produce more analog ICs, which will be used in electronics ...

Defect detection requirements on the order of 10 defective parts per million (DPPM) are driving improvements in inspection tools’ resolution and throughput at foundries and OSATs. However, defects ...