Top Stories
Ways To Address The Materials Crunch
From neon gas to tool components, the industry is creating more resilient supply chains.
Variation Making Trouble In Advanced Packages
Disaggregating SoCs into multiple chips introduces potential issues that may take years to show up.
High-NA EUV May Be Closer Than It Appears
Tools are coming, but advanced resists and masks need to keep pace.
Blogs
Lam Research’s Krishnan Shrinivasan explains why 3D requires radical changes in the way devices are designed, necessitating new deposition and etch approaches, in Chipmaking In The Third Dimension.
Amkor Technology’s Marc Mangrum looks at some of the packaging technology that is meeting unique dimensional, environmental, and application requirements, in Packaging Solutions For Unique Markets.
Coventor’s Michael Hargrove predicts that well-understood materials likely will play a key role in the quantum era, in Quantum Computers And CMOS Semiconductors: A Review And Future Predictions.
Brewer Science’s Jessica Albright lays outs the difference between types of chromatography to determine which is best for an application, in Small Molecule Analysis Testing: Liquid Chromatography Versus Gas Chromatography.
Jan Willis reflects on the work of Naoya Hayashi, DNP research fellow, in For The Love Of Theatre And Mask-Making.
Sponsor White Papers
Revising 5G RF Calibration Procedures For RF IC Production Testing
At mmWave frequencies, signals are more susceptible to impairments, requiring extra consideration in the selection of test solutions, cables and connectors. System-level calibration is also essential to achieve accurate measurements.
High-Temperature Stable Spin-On Carbon Materials For Advanced Pattern Transfer Applications
A successful development of pattern transfer process using Brewer Science’s HTSOC with EUV lithography. HTSOC can be used as a mandrel in self-aligned double patterning (SADP) utilizing high-temperature CVD deposition of the spacer.
Ultra-Low Resonance Frequency MEMS Gravimeter With Off-Resonance Closed-Loop Control
Closed-loop tuning can eliminate temperature dependence of the frequency, and a force-balanced system nulls the mass displacement.
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