IMPULSE® V System

The IMPULSE V system helps to advance CMP processing with enhanced wavefront technology and AI-driven analytics, delivering over 2X precision improvement and faster solutions, crucial for next-gen semiconductor manufacturing demands.

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Product Overview

As wafer uniformity requirements tighten and vertical scaling increases, the need for CMP processing grows across market segments. Logic introduces new transistor designs and materials, DRAM incorporates new materials and process steps to planarize, and 3D NAND adds more decks, stacks and tiers.

The IMPULSE V system, available as an integrated or standalone platform, enhances film measurement fidelity and productivity for the CMP process module. With deep ultraviolet (DUV) optics and AI-driven machine analytics derived from our Atlas® platform, it works in conjunction with the Atlas® platform to provide CMP process engineers the capability to manage excursions and drive process improvement (Cpk.).

Advanced wavefront technology suppresses previous layer noise in complex structures. It provides feedback to improve long term repeatability. Designed for higher sampling, in-die/on-device and wafer edge measurements, the system offers improved reliability, higher throughput and over 2X precision improvement compared to the previous generation. Onboard AI-driven machine learning uses a signal-to-noise ratio for faster time-to-solution, addressing layers that were previously challenging to measure.

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Element™ G2 System

The Element G2 system is a high-speed epitaxial layer metrology and wafer/film composition control system for wafer makers, advanced logic, DRAM and 3D NAND.

Element™ G2 System

Product Overview

The Element G2 system is designed for wafer suppliers to perform high speed impurity mapping and epi thickness measurements. It combines transmission and reflection-based technology and when paired with advanced IR modeling capability, it offers a unique approach to dielectric composition and film thickness monitoring. With improved sensitivity and cutting-edge algorithms, the Element G2 system is a critical metrology tool widely used for monitoring dielectrics such as BPSG, FSG, H in SiN, and more. Machine learning helps eliminate the need for monitor wafers in dielectric measurement.

The system features a crisp 2mm circular IR spot, a high sensitivity interferometer and advanced pattern recognition. Equipped with a Class 1, five-axis dual-arm edge grip wafer handling system, the Element G2 system delivers high precision and high throughput, even at the edge of the wafer.

Applications

  • Multi layer Epi layer, transition zone thickness and substrate concentration
  • Power device EPI and buffer layer
  • BPSG, FSG, SiN, HSQ, SiON, SiCN, SiOC
  • Multiple IR peak metrics
  • Interstitial oxygen and substitutional carbon
  • Oxygen dose and Oxygen precipitate
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Echo™ System

The Echo system utilizes picosecond ultrasonics to provide accurate, in-line, on-product metrology and materials characterization for semiconductor processes requiring metal thickness metrology, implant monitoring or thermal conductivity characterization on product wafers.

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The Echo system is a comprehensive in-line metal film metrology tool designed for single and multi-layer metal film measurements in leading-edge logic, memory, advanced packaging and specialty semiconductor devices. Its innovative optics design extends the dynamic range for film thickness measurement from 50Å to 35µm on a single platform and offers extendibility to measure high aspect ratio advanced 3D NAND structures. The Expert Applications System (EASy™) software provides flexibility for developing user-defined algorithms to model complex multi-layer stacks.

The Echo system’s capabilities have been extended to include materials characterization. In addition to measuring the Young’s Modulus of low-k dielectric films in BEOL and amorphous carbon hard masks in 3D NAND, the Echo system includes proprietary electronics and algorithms for implant monitoring and thermal conductivity characterization. Its small spot size, combined with rapid measurements, enables full wafer mapping capabilities with 0.5mm edge exclusion, improving time to yield.

Applications

  • Gate metals, plug/contact, barrier/seed layers, top metal
  • RF electrode/IDT
  • Advanced packaging UBM, RDL
  • 3D NAND Hard mask
  • MEMS Poly/Ge
  • Low-k, ultra low-k film modulus, implant, thermal conductivity
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Atlas® V System

The Atlas V system is an OCD and thin film metrology tool for high volume manufacturing, enabling FinFET & Gate-All-Around (GAA) logic, DRAM, and 3D NAND device process control.

Atlas® V System

Product Overview

The Atlas V system combines state of the art optical design with an innovative Ai Diffract modeling engine, providing OCD and thin film metrology solutions for measuring complex 3D device structures. The dual channel optical architecture consists of a DUV 4×4 Mueller Matrix (MM) SE and a DUV polarized normal incident reflectometer (NIOCD). Together, they provide rich information for OCD analysis at high precision and high throughput. The Atlas V system is designed to measure the most critical and challenging process steps that include buried features, not visible by CD-SEM and other techniques.

With unique capabilities, such as measuring individual nanowire dimension in a GAA logic device, the Atlas V system is an enabling technology for leading edge device process control.

Applications

  • OCD for litho, etch, CVD & CMP process in all device segments
  • Local variation
  • Asymmetry and tilt
  • Common and critical films
  • Stress & wafer warpage
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Aspect® System

The Aspect System is a revolutionary in-line, non-destructive infrared optical critical dimension (IRCD) system measuring Z-dimension profiling of high aspect ratio structures to enable critical process control. It meets the needs of leading-edge customers with its high speed and process coverage.

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As the semiconductor industry relentlessly pursues density and power scaling, more and more high aspect ratio (HAR) processes are used across multiple device segments, especially in advanced memory such as 3D NAND and 3D DRAM. The Aspect metrology system was designed with these ongoing architectures and scaling strategies in mind. Aspect metrology has demonstrated superior performance across multiple customer devices through a unique proprietary IRCD system that provides full profiling capability to enable critical process control, with the speed and process coverage that customers require.

The Aspect system is powered by a software analysis engine, Ai Diffract™, that provides up to 90% faster time to solution which extends the industry leading NanoDiffract® software by leveraging extensive machine learning capabilities along with high fidelity modeling. The result is a simultaneous improvement in metrology performance along with a significant time to solution reduction.

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  • Etch, cleans, and deposition for 3D NAND
  • Etch, cleans, and deposition for 2D and 3D DRAM
  • Deep trench etch and doping for CIS
  • Deep Trench etch in Power Devices
  • On-device materials characterization for EPI process
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NovusEdge® G2 System

The NovusEdge G2 System offers fast, reliable edge, notch and backside inspection for 300mm unpatterned wafers, utilizing modular configurations.

NovusEdge® G2 System

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The NovusEdge G2 System provides high sensitivity inspection for the edge and backside of unpatterned wafers for current and advanced nodes. Configurable modules on the same automation platform increase throughput while maintaining a small footprint for improved cost of ownership. The edge-gripping handling solution for both automation platform and the inspection modules provide desired cleanliness required for manufacturing. Optional high-sensitivity notch inspection can be added. Defects are automatically classified and binned at run time to reduce manual review.

Designed as a multipurpose inspection and sorting system for end of line outgoing quality inspection of 300mm unpatterned wafers, the system identifies, inspects and sorts wafers according to recipes.

The NovusEdge G2 system offers higher sensitivity than the previous generation, with sub-micron resolution and increased throughput by over 15%. User interaction is simplified, and the new electrical design consumes less power.

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