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Wafer Fab Equipment
Wafer fabrication equipment is equipment that is used in the process of semiconductor fabrication to process raw semiconductor wafers into finished chips, such as integrated circuits. Wafer fabrication equipment is meant to be installed in cleanrooms. Types * Stepper * Burn-in oven Market Referred to respectively as the wafer fab equipment apexresearch"Global Wafer Fab Equipment (WFE) Market Insights 2019-2025"''njmmanews.com'', January 30, 2020Sample apexresearch report (PDF)."Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" on the ''njmmanews.com'' link to th"Jesus Martinez fills in against Nah-Shon Burrell at Bellator 108"citation in the Nah-Shon Burrell Wikipedia article; ''no'' warning on the other links to the ''njmmanews.com'' site here in the "Wafer fabrication" Wikipedia article. Retrieved 2020-05-29. or wafer front end Manners, David"Applied to lose front-end equipment crown to ASML" '' electronicsweekly.com'', 26 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-29. (equipment) market, both usin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semiconductor Fabrication
Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, and memories (such as RAM and flash memory). It is a multiple-step photolithographic and physico-chemical process (with steps such as thermal oxidation, thin-film deposition, ion-implantation, etching) during which electronic circuits are gradually created on a wafer, typically made of pure single-crystal semiconducting material. Silicon is almost always used, but various compound semiconductors are used for specialized applications. This article focuses on the manufacture of integrated circuits, however steps such as etching and photolithography can be used to manufacture other devices such as LCD and OLED displays. The fabrication process is performed in highly specialized semiconductor fabrication plants, also called foundries or "fabs", with the central part being the " clean room". In more advanced semi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLA-Tencor
KLA Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California that makes wafer fab equipment. It supplies process control and yield management systems for the semiconductor industry and other related nanoelectronics industries. The company's products and services are intended for all phases of wafer, reticle, integrated circuit (IC) and packaging production, from research and development to final volume manufacturing. History KLA Corporation was formed in 1997 as KLA-Tencor through the merger of KLA Instruments and Tencor Instruments, two companies in the semiconductor equipment and yield management systems industry. The merger was intended to create a single source for chip process and diagnostics equipment. KLA Instruments was founded in 1975 by Ken Levy and Bob Anderson, and focused on photomask detection to identify chip defects. KLA later broadened its product line to include wafer inspection, wafer metrology and integrated inspection and analysis software. Tencor wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FOUP
FOUP (an acronym for front-opening unified pod or front-opening universal pod) is a specialized plastic carrier designed to hold silicon Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent metalloid (sometimes considered a non-metal) and semiconductor. It is a membe ... wafers securely and safely in a controlled environment, and to allow the wafers to be transferred between machines for processing or measurement. FOUPs began to appear along with the first 300mm wafer processing tools in the mid 1990s. The size of the wafers and their comparative lack of rigidity meant that SMIF pods were not a viable form factor. FOUP standards were developed by SEMI and SEMI members to ensure that FOUPs and all equipment that interacts with FOUPs work together seamlessly. Transitioning from a SMIF pod to a FOUP design, the removable cassette used to hold wafers was replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LCD Manufacturing
LCD manufacturing is the process of making liquid crystal display (LCD) panels. It involves using glass and silicon substrates. Photolithography is used to pattern the substrates, and liquid crystal materials are added. In the case of a color TFT LCD, color filters are patterned in layers to make red, green, and blue pixels. Liquid crystal displays are manufactured in cleanrooms, borrowing techniques from semiconductor device manufacturing. Process A class of photolithography known as display lithography is used to etch patterns into substrates. LCD manufacturing shares some of the process with OLED manufacturing. The process flow involves multiple separate components that are joined together: a process for making a thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane, a process for making color filters, and a liquid crystal cell process. Large-scale chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems have been used in the manufacture of LCDs. Once LCD panels are manufactured, they can be measured for col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Market Share
Market share is the percentage of the total revenue or sales in a Market (economics), market that a company's business makes up. For example, if there are 50,000 units sold per year in a given industry, a company whose sales were 5,000 of those units would have a 10percent share in that market. "Marketers need to be able to translate sales targets into market share because this will demonstrate whether forecasts are to be attained by growing with the market or by capturing share from competitors. The latter will almost always be more difficult to achieve. Market share is closely monitored for signs of change in the competitive landscape, and it frequently drives strategic or tactical action."Farris, Paul W.; Neil T. Bendle; Phillip E. Pfeifer; David J. Reibstein (2010). ''Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance.'' Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. . The Marketing Accountability Standards Board (MASB) endorses the definitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dainippon Screen
is a Japanese semiconductor and electronics company, headquartered in Kyoto, engaged in the manufacture and sale of equipment for the manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays, storage media (such as optical discs) and precision technology manufacturing equipment. SCREEN Holdings has several sites in Japan, with offices in Kyoto, Kudanminami, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Etchūjima, Koto, Tokyo and manufacturing plants in Kyoto, Yasu, Shiga, Hikone, and Taga, Shiga, The SCREEN Holdings Group has many subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. On August 5, 2014, the company announced a change of its corporate name from its name at the time, , to Screen Holdings, as it restructured to become a holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Electron
, or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Tokyo, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded as Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc. in 1963. TEL is best known as a supplier of equipment to semiconductor device fabrication, fabricate integrated circuits (IC), flat panel displays (FPD), and photovoltaic cells (PV). , or TED, is a subsidiary of TEL specializing in semiconductor devices, electronic components, and networking devices. As of 2011, TEL was the largest manufacturer of IC and FPD production equipment. Listed on the Nikkei 225, in 2024, Tokyo Electron had a market cap of US$114.6 billion, making it the third-most valuable company in Japan in terms of market cap, and the 12th ranked semiconductor-related company worldwide. Company history 1963-1979 On 11 November 1963 Tokyo Electron Laboratories Incorporated was founded by Tokuo Kubo and Toshio Kodaka, largely funded by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS), with a capita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lam Research
Lam Research Corporation is an American supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment and related services to the semiconductor industry. Its products are used primarily in front-end wafer processing, which involves the steps that create the active components of semiconductor devices (transistors, capacitors) and their wiring (interconnects). The company also builds equipment for back-end wafer-level packaging (WLP) and for related manufacturing markets such as for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Lam Research was founded in 1980 by David K. Lam and is headquartered in Fremont, California. As of 2023, it was the third largest manufacturer in the Bay Area, after Tesla and Intuitive Surgical. History Lam Research was founded in 1980 by David K. Lam, a Chinese-born engineer who had previously worked at Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, and Texas Instruments. It was while he was at Hewlett Packard that he saw the need for better plasma etching equipment, to keep up with the rapid mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASML Holding
ASML Holding N.V. (commonly shortened to ASML, originally standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Netherlands, Dutch multinational corporation that specializes in the development and manufacturing of photolithography machines which are used to produce integrated circuit, integrated circuits. it is the largest supplier for the semiconductor industry and the sole supplier in the world of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) photolithography machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced chips. , ASML was the fourth most valuable company in Europe, and the second most valued European tech company, with a market capitalization of about US$264 billion. ASML was founded in 1984 as a joint venture between the Dutch technology companies Philips and ASM International. It became a fully independent corporation in 1995. ASML's corporate headquarters is in Veldhoven, Netherlands and is the location for research, development, manufacturing and assembly. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wafer (semiconductor)
In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells. The wafer serves as the substrate for microelectronic devices built in and upon the wafer. It undergoes many microfabrication processes, such as doping, ion implantation, etching, thin-film deposition of various materials, and photolithographic patterning. Finally, the individual microcircuits are separated by wafer dicing and packaged as an integrated circuit. History In the semiconductor industry, the term wafer appeared in the 1950s to describe a thin round slice of semiconductor material, typically germanium or silicon. The round shape characteristic of these wafers comes from single-crystal ingots usually produced using the Czochralski method. Though, silicon wafers were first introduced in the 1940s. By 1960, silicon wafers wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Applied Materials
Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and solar products. The company also supplies equipment to produce coatings for flexible electronics, packaging and other applications. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and is the second largest supplier of semiconductor equipment in the world based on revenue behind Dutch company ASML. History Founded in 1967 by Michael A. McNeilly and others, Applied Materials went public in 1972 on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations ( NASDAQ), a then-recently established stock exchange. In subsequent years, the company diversified, until James C. Morgan became CEO in 1976 and returned the company's focus to its core business of semiconductor manufacturing equipment. By 1978, sales increased by 17%. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronics Weekly
''Electronics Weekly'' is a weekly trade journal for electronics professionals which was first published by Reed Business Information on 7 September 1960. It was the first British Electronics newspaper and its founding editor was Cyril C. Gee who had previously been the editor of British Communications and Electronics. It is available in print and electronic formats. The magazine's circulation in 2023 was 25,000 copies. In August 2012 Metropolis International purchased the title from RBI. Topics covered within the magazine include news and features on design, components, production and research, as well as news stories and product listings. ''Electronics Weekly'' is available free to qualified electronics professionals. The bulk of revenue received to fund the magazine comes from display and recruitment advertising. Website ElectronicsWeekly.com is a website for electronics professionals and provides users with news, analysis, features and business stories. The website also pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
