What Service Should You Expect from Supplier of Etch and Deposition Equipment?
It's easy to get caught up in the obvious components of plasma-based etch and deposition equipment. Who makes the sturdiest equipment? What is this company's track record? Does this company offer the type of equipment I need to handle my projects? Those are all perfectly important questions during your vetting process....
How to Compare Service for Plasma Etch and Deposition Equipment
Beyond machine configurations, materials, and certifications, choosing the right dry etching and deposition equipment partner comes down to one core factor: service....
Single Electrons and Low Energy Computation
Gregory Snider, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Notre Dame. Over the past few years, his research has focused on the design, fabrication, and measurements of micro- and nanoelectronic devices....
An Introduction to HDPCVD
Introduction to HDPCVD No doubt technology has experienced incredible acceleration since the development of the first transistors nearly 75 years ago. Key to that acceleration is the semiconductor industry and its fabrication methods that enabled low cost production of devices that now fuel nearly all aspects of our lives with ubiquitous advances in communication, healthcare, defense, transportation, and computation....
How to Determine Throughput
What is the throughput of a plasma processing system? When buying a system, it’s important to know whether the level of output is suitable to fulfill the user’s capacity needs. For example, some customers are interested in how many wafers per hour can be run while others are asking how many chambers are needed to satisfy a quota of devices (units) in a month. Multiple factors go into calculating throughput....
