When Ben Wells, president of Wells R&D (Lincoln, MA), a maker of custom testing solutions for the semiconductor and optical industries, was building a test instrument, he needed to way to stack and ...

The alpha300 Semiconductor Edition is a sophisticated confocal Raman microscope designed for the chemical analysis of semiconducting materials. This advanced tool helps researchers quickly analyze ...

Olympus Integrated Technologies America presented its 3D-ICautomated metrology system at SEMICON West 2010. The system provides preciseimaging to verify the alignment of bonded wafers and TSVs ...

Semiconductors are an ever-present aspect of life as we experience it today. Application-wise, there are many factors that drive the semiconductor industry. From displays to lighting, data ...

Line-scan vs. area-scan cameras. Key ingredients to the high-speed machine-vision system for inspection. How to synchronize the wafers with the camera. Optical semiconductor inspection presents ...

Designers doing process development or device characterization and modeling can use Cascade Microtech's eVue digital imaging system to navigate, observe, and measure their devices more quickly and ...

Some industry sectors such as automotive and medical continue to push for higher and higher reliability levels; however, many fabs are having difficulties achieving them. Current inspection regimes ...

In this interview, Scott Jordan, Head of Photonics at PI (Physik Instrumente) talks to AZoM about the importance of manufacturing and testing photonic devices. First, let’s consider electronics. It is ...

One of the contributors to layer-to-layer overlay in today’s chip manufacturing process is wafer distortion due to thin film deposition. Mismatch in the film specific material parameters (e.g., ...