Greg DeLarge and his team at Carson City's Plasma Etch Inc. has been getting lots of attention - the good kind of attention - from environmentalists in the last week or so. Gratifying as he finds the ...

A team of physicists has uncovered some of the physics that make possible the etching of silicon computer chips, which power cell phones, computers, and a huge range of electronic devices. Physicist ...

It's a mistake to assume wafer clamp rings have to polyimide. Several other work about as well. Silicon wafers aren't the only things that lose material in the various etching steps of IC ...

(Nanowerk News) Imec and KLA Tencor have established a metrology method for optimizing the etch rate uniformity (ERU) in a transformer coupled plasma (TCP) reactor. The proposed metrology method makes ...

FREMONT, CA--(Marketwired - July 14, 2015) - Mattson Technology, Inc. (MTSN), a leading supplier of advanced wafer fabrication equipment used by semiconductor manufacturers, today announced that it ...

Imagine trying to carve a tiny, complex sculpture into a block the size of your fingernail again and again, billions of times, with nearly no room for error. That’s ...

Plasma chemistry and etching processes form the backbone of modern semiconductor fabrication, enabling the precise patterning and removal of material layers essential to device performance. By ...

Trikon Technologies Inc. of Newport, Wales, today introduced two plasma etch products aimed at the silicon and compound semiconductor markets. Trikon (nasdaq: TRKN) debuted the Omega fxP ...

Mass spectrometry, by contrast, is a powerful technique for the analysis of any process gas. Careful consideration of differences in pressure, reaction time scales and process flow is essential for ...

Deep inside your smartphone are a handful of interesting miniature electromechanical devices. The accelerometer is a MEMS device, and was produced with some of the most impressive industrial processes ...