Managing Water Supplies With Machine Learning
By Katherine Derbyshire - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

From wet benches to cooling systems, fabs use vast amounts of water — millions of gallons per day at a typical foundry. In this era of climate change, though, water supplies are becoming less reliable and municipal water systems are becoming more restrictive. For example, local utilities might restrict a fab’s ability to draw from the public water supply, or might supply only treated wastew... » read more

Managing Yield With EUV Lithography And Stochastics
By Katherine Derbyshire - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 1

Identifying issues that actually affect yield is becoming more critical and more difficult at advanced nodes, but there is progress. Although they are closely related, yield management and process control are not the same. Yield management seeks to maximize the number of functioning devices at the end of the line. Process control focuses on keeping each individual device layer within its des... » read more

Next Gen Laser Assisted Bonding (LAB) Technology
By SeokHo Na - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

In the semiconductor market, there are many applications including smartphone, tablets, central processing units (CPUs), artificial intelligence (AI), data cloud and more that are expecting rapid growth. Among them, CPU data processing, AI and data cloud require much higher power consumption than smart phones or tablets. For the higher power applications, Flip Chip ball grid array (FCBGA) or 2.... » read more

The Impact Of Metal Gate Recess Profile On Transistor Resistance And Capacitance
By Pradeep Nanja - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

In logic devices such as finFETs (field-effect transistors), metal gate parasitic capacitance can negatively impact electrical performance. One way to reduce this parasitic capacitance is to optimize the metal gate recess dimensions. However, there are limits to reducing this capacitance if you simply remove more of the metal material, since this can modify capacitance unexpectedly through chan... » read more

Reflections On Photomask Japan 2023: Embracing The Era Of Curvilinear Masks
By Seiji Nagahara - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

In April, 2023, I had the privilege of participating in Photomask Japan 2023 (PMJ2023), a web conference that brought together experts and enthusiasts in the field. The conference commenced with an enlightening keynote talk by Dr. Kurt Ronse of imec on the status and challenges of the high NA EUV ecosystem, presenting roadmaps for the introduction of high NA EUV. I would like to express my grat... » read more

Enabling New Functionality In Medtech And Biotech Devices
By Dick Otte - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Medtech and biotech devices are uniquely suited to benefit from emerging electronic capabilities – specifically, the kind of electronics design, packaging and assembly offerings that are Promex’s specialty. With that said, these markets present a variety of manufacturing challenges and demands that require heterogeneous integration (HI) to address. This two-part blog post provides a high... » read more

MEMS & Sensors Market Forecast: Impact Of Semiconductor Industry Slowdown
By Timothy Brosnihan - 18 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Of all technologies, MEMS and sensors stand out for their far-reaching promise to improve lives across segments such as Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, smart home, digital health, precision agriculture, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and environmental monitoring. Little wonder, then, that the growth of the MEMS and sensor design and manufacturing industry is among the hottest topics at ... » read more

Cross-Shaped Reconfigurable Transistor (CS-RFET) With Flexible Signal Routing
By Technical Paper Link - 17 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Cross-Shape Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistor for Flexible Signal Routing" was published by researchers at NaMLab gGmbH, École Centrale de Lyon, and TU Dresden. "A detailed comprehensive study of the cross-shape reconfigurable field effect transistor electrical characteristics are presented. The fabricated device demonstrates nearly equal transistor charac... » read more

Breaking The 1M RAID5 Write IOPS Barrier
By Samsung - 17 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

In today’s data-centric age, enormous amounts of data are generated, stored and processed at an unprecedented rate. Businesses are utilizing this data to make better decisions, drive greater efficiencies, develop more desirable products, improve profitability and ultimately increase user satisfaction. To continue deriving a high degree of value from a rapidly-expanding data flow, today’s en... » read more

Blog Review: May 17
By Jesse Allen - 17 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

Synopsys' Dana Neustadter examines the key industries driving Ethernet security, challenges to securing Ethernet networks, and the MACsec protocol that guards against network data breaches by encrypting data traffic between Ethernet-connected devices. Siemens' Stephen Chavez points to the improvements gained from design reuse in PCB design but warns that inefficient processes for managing an... » read more

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