Iris™ S System

The Iris S system is a versatile platform solution for the advanced packaging and specialty market, supporting 150mm, 200mm and 300mm wafers. It provides thin and thick film, OCD and wafer bow and film stress measurements.

Iris™ S System

Product Overview

The Iris S system delivers films metrology and advanced OCD capabilities for the specialty and advanced packaging segments. With a small footprint, it handles 150mm, 200mm, and 300mm wafer sizes, including thin, thick and bonded wafers. The system supports various materials such as Si, SiC, GaN and glass, addressing device-level challenges impacting performance and yield. Leveraging Onto’s Ai Diffract software, the Iris S system supports the most difficult on-wafer high value problems.

The Iris S system includes a dual-arm robot, high-precision stage, advanced pattern recognition, and high-speed focus for accurate positioning at high throughput. The dual channel optical architecture offers oblique incidence Mueller Matrix spectroscopic ellipsometry (MMSE) and normal incidence spectroscopic reflectometry (SR) in a broad wavelength range from UV to IR.

Based on Windows 10 OS and a 64-bit architecture, the Ai Diffract™ software interface and automation comply with SEMI standards. Onto’s model guided machine learning enables fast, flexible and robust film and OCD recipe setup.

Applications

  • Thin, thick and ultra thick film thickness
  • Trench/OCD metrology capabilities
  • Optical properties and composition solutions
  • Configurable for 6”, 8” and 12” wafer sizes
  • High warped wafer handling and stress measurements
  • Si, SiC, GaN and glass wafer handling
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IMPULSE®+ System

The IMPULSE+ system is designed to deliver film measurement, fidelity and productivity in the CMP process module. Available as an integrated or standalone platform, it offers high sensitivity and accuracy.

IMPULSE®+ System

Product Overview

An integrated metrology standard, the IMPULSE+ system offers high sensitivity and accuracy to CMP process excursions and enables device makers to establish APC control with high-accuracy feedback. The IMPULSE+ system works in conjunction with the Atlas® platform, facilitating cross-module process optimization and comprehensive fab-wide process control.

Based on a common optical design derived from our stand-alone Atlas® platform, the IMPULSE+ system shares superior deep ultraviolet (DUV) optics. This unique ecosystem can be leveraged to improve signal to noise ratio by applying spectra feedforward from the Atlas platform, further enhanced by AI-driven machine analytics. This combination affords CMP process engineers a potent arsenal of capability to manage excursions and drive process improvement (Cpk.).

The IMPULSE+ system is widely adopted across key steps in DRAM, 3D-NAND, CMOS image sensor and foundry/logic device manufacturing. challenging to measure.

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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™ S System

The Element S system offers a unique combination of transmission and reflection-based technology, making it a valuable tool for dielectric monitoring.

Element™ S System

Product Overview

The Element S system is designed for the specialty market, specifically the smaller 100mm to 200mm wafer sizes used in the rapidly growing Si/SiC/GaN power device market. Building on the success of the Element Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) system, the Element S system can accurately measure thickness and free carrier concentrations in epitaxial layers up to five layers. This capability is essential for characterizing the thick epitaxial films required for next generation SiC power devices, which need thick epi layers for higher standoff voltage.

With its small spot size, the Element S system can conduct measurements up to the very edge of the wafer, maximizing die yield and enhancing productivity as power device customers transition to 200mm wafers. With improved sensitivity, an advanced multi-layer epi algorithm, and leading-edge multiple IR peak modeling, the Element S system provides critical and versatile capabilities for wafer and device makers in epi and film composition monitoring.

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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Product Overview

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® III+ System

The Atlas III+ system provides dependable OCD and thin film metrology for established technologies, with flexible performance across a wide range of process layers and device types.

Atlas® III+ System

Product Overview

The Atlas III+ system is a widely adopted inline OCD metrology system, known for its robust and reliable solutions across all OCD and film layers from FEOL to BEOL. With its information-rich optical architecture, powerful OCD and machine learning analysis engine, the Atlas III+ system excels in advanced logic, 3D NAND and DRAM device processes. Extending metrology performance to sub-angstrom precision and accuracy levels, this system enables advanced process control across a broad range of applications in high volume manufacturing. The Atlas III+ system incorporates a proprietary spectroscopic reflectometry and spectroscopic ellipsometry solution, and when combined with Onto Innovation’s Ai Diffract™ OCD analysis software, it enables process control of every critical manufacturing unit operation. Users can gain insights into complex structure profiles across etch, clean, deposition and CMP steps.

Applications

  • 3D-NAND
  • DRAM: Logic and Foundry
  • Specialty: CIS, AR/VR, Power & RF etc.
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