The alpha300 Semiconductor Edition is a sophisticated confocal Raman microscope designed for the chemical analysis of semiconducting materials. This advanced tool helps researchers quickly analyze ...

For quality control purposes, wafers, such as semiconductor or flat-panel display (FPD) chips, need to be examined under a microscope to verify that they meet specifications related to both circuit ...

Line-scan vs. area-scan cameras. Key ingredients to the high-speed machine-vision system for inspection. How to synchronize the wafers with the camera. Optical semiconductor inspection presents ...

Some industry sectors such as automotive and medical continue to push for higher and higher reliability levels; however, many fabs are having difficulties achieving them. Current inspection regimes ...

Wafers can be inspected for large, obvious defects, or for small, subtle ones. The former is referred to as macro-inspection, while the latter is micro-inspection. These processes use different ...

Semiconductor circuits (patterns) printed on semiconductor wafers (substrates) are shrinking, while such substrates are becoming larger in physical size. Over the years, the inspection of patterned ...

You can use the DM8000 M and the DM12000 M optical inspection microscopes from Leica Microsystems for the inspection, process control, and defect analysis of 8-in. and 12-in. semiconductor wafers. An ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 Taking on Hitachi, KLA-Tencor and others, Applied Materials Inc. on Monday (June 6) entered the brightfield wafer inspection business, rolling out what it claims to provide the ...

As the automotive electronics market continues to grow, spurred by developments such as semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles, the demand is increasing for power semiconductor components with ...

The first reflection microscope to use an EUV laser illumination source could provide chip manufacturers with a rapid, on-site method for inspecting lithography masks. A tabletop extreme ultraviolet ...

The research study covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global e-beam wafer inspection system market for 2017-2021. To calculate the market size, the report covers the shipment of e ...