While visiting the National Gallery of Canada, Sharif noticed a pattern on a Navajo textile from New Mexico that looked similar to the pattern on Intel's Pentium processor. The textile, called ...

YOKOHAMA—After a decade of development, Canon Inc. began selling lithography equipment for semiconductor production, hoping to reclaim a share in the market. The equipment is used to print fine ...

Forming circuits involves the use of cylindrical pieces of semiconductor material. These cylinders are sliced into thin, circular pieces known as bare wafers. The bare wafers are then oxidized before ...

For quality control purposes, wafers, such as semiconductor or flat-panel display (FPD) chips, need to be examined under a microscope to verify that they meet specifications related to both circuit ...

Semiconductor wafer defect pattern recognition and classification is a crucial area of research that underpins yield enhancement and quality assurance in microelectronics manufacturing. The discipline ...

As the complexity of IC designs continues to grow, moving critical checks earlier in the design cycle helps designers identify and resolve issues before they escalate, streamlining the overall ...