Recently added articles from Semiconductor International:
Youse Gets What Youse Pays For.
Oct 01, 2009; ... Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor One of Ring Lardner's zany characters had a catchphrase for whatever happened. Bad or good, wonderful or catastrophic, his philosophical remark would invariably be, "Youse gets what youse pays for." I went to this year's SPIE ...
Collaborative R&D More Important.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Ludo Deferm, Executive Vice President IMEC, www.imec.be The semiconductor industry is facing the headwinds of a challenging operating environment. However, even in periods of economic downturn, the industry will continue to seek new markets, and innovation is the key to prepare ...
In-Die vs. Scribe-Line Copper CMP Monitoring.
Oct 01, 2009 ... H.S. Lee, C. Kim, H. Yoo, T.K. Kim, C.H. Lee, S. Son, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Kyunggi-do, Korea, www.hynix.com, K. Park, P. Mukundhan, C. Kim, Rudolph Technologies, Flanders, N.J., www.rudolphtech.com For copper electroplating and post-CMP, in-die copper thickness measurements ...
MEMS Motion Sensors Stay in Motion.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Laurent Robin, Yole Developpement, Lyon, France, www.yole.fr The mobile market is driving the adoption of accelerometers and gyroscopes, in handhelds, digital still cameras, cars and anything else that moves. Motion sensing devices are not new. They have been used ...
POU Filters Reduce ArF Lithography Defects.
Oct 01, 2009 ... Nelson Vitorino, Elizabeth Wolfer, Yi Cao and DongKwan Lee, AZ Electronic Materials USA Corp., Somerville, N.J., www.az-em.com, Aiwen Wu, Entegris Inc., Billerica, Mass., www.entegris.com In comparison of filter materials and filtration sizes including 5, 10 and 20 nm, we ...