Wafer Failure Analysis
Defines the failure mode and then through additional testing determine it's cause.
See Also: Wafer, Wafer Thickness, Wafer Edge, Wafer Resistivity, Wafer Mapping, Wafer Probes, Wafer Probers, Wafer Inspection
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Failure Analysis
MicroINSPECT 300FA
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The MicroINSPECT 300FA is an automated wafer inspection tool used for semiconductor wafer failure analysis. Its small footprint, high speed, and low cost relative to its rich features yield a superb cost of ownership and makes this an ideal tool for your fab or failure analysis lab. The MicroINSPECT 300FA combines advanced robotics, wafer sorting, an intelligent wafer inspection microscope together with SiteVIEW Software to produce an integrated failure analysis tool.
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Failure Analysis
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Failure analysis on electronic components is a continuous challenging task. The smaller transistor dimensions, increasing functional complexity and changing device packaging styles requires new tools and skills for sample preparation, fault localization techniques, high resolution imaging and analysis.
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Failure Analysis – Materials
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Failure analysis – materials is the investigation into the background or history of a sample, or an event, to determine why a particular failure occurred. A product failure may include premature breakage, discoloration or even an unexpected odor. It is useful to know if this failure is a new, unique occurrence or if it has been an ongoing issue. The investigation can involve analyzing the sample as it currently exists and extrapolating from that data what may have caused the failure. A sample of the “good” vs. “bad” product may also be useful for comparison purposes.
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Benchmark, Competitive and Failure Analysis
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Helping you determine the root cause of product failures and evaluate products against industry competition and standards.We provide third-party verification and support for claims related to performance versus competition, root product failure cause, and benchmark industry performance. As an independent laboratory with over 60 years of product testing experience, our expertise helps you evaluate products for a variety of performance related characteristics. Additionally, we can provide expert witness legal testimony for insurance claims, CPSC filings, and civil/criminal court cases through our testing results and data.
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Failure Analysis
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Failure Analysis (FA) plays a crucial role in the production of semiconductors. It provides process and design feedback to determine the root cause of any failures. Time-to-data for the FA Engineer is a critical measurement and SemiProbe’s Probe System for Life ® (PS4L) is ideally suited to excel in this application. All key components are interchangeable, making it easy to switch between individual die, wafers, and packaged parts.
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Electronics Failure Analysis System
Sentris
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Due to the continued decrease in integrated circuit feature size and supply voltages, detecting and locating the miniscule amount of heat generated by failure sites has become increasingly difficult. Sentris pinpoints low-level infrared thermal emissions from IC faults such as short circuits and leakage current.
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Failure Analysis
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A partial list of our state of the art test equipment, applicable to these testing disciplines, will include the following: Two Scanning Electron Microscopes with EDS (SEM/EDS) Three Differential Scanning Calorimeters (DSC) Three Thermogravimetric Analyzers (TGA) Three Thermo Mechanical Analyzers (TMA) One Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA) Two Real-Time Fluoroscopic X-ray Systems, including a Microfocus System One Fourier Transform Infrared Microscope (FTIR) (capable of identifying a single particle of an unknown material) Two Ion Chromatographs (IC) (capable of identifying ionic impurities in ppm)
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Wafer Manufacturing
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Scientific Computing International
A procedure composed of many repeated sequential processes to produce complete electrical or photonic circuits on semiconductor wafers in semiconductor device fabrication process.
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Wafer Bonder
AML
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Wafer bonding has found many applications in the field of MST, MEMS and micro engineering. These include the fabrication of pressure sensors, accelerometers, micro-pumps and other fluid handling devices. The process is also used for first-order packaging of silicon microstructures to isolate package-induced stresses. The OAI AML Wafer Bonder facilitates both the alignment and bonding to be performed in-situ, in a high vacuum chamber. For anodic bonding the wafers are loaded cold and heated in the process chamber. For high accuracy alignment the wafers are aligned and brought into contact only after the process temperature has been reached, thus avoiding differential thermal expansion effects which can compromise alignment. The AML Wafer Bonder is excellent for anodic bonding, silicon direct and thermal compression bonding applications. These features enable the bonder to be used with virtually any processing tool.
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WAFER MVM-SEM
E3300 Family
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The E3310 is a WAFER MVM-SEM* for next generation wafers, supporting 1Xnm node process development and volume production at the 22nm node and beyond. With its high-speed carrier system employing a dual arm vacuum robot, and low-vibration platform to improve measurement accuracy, the E3310 delivers high throughput and performance for wafer measurements. Its multi detector configuration and unique 3D measurement algorithm also enable stable, high-accuracy measurement of 3D transistor technologies such as FinFET. The E3310 makes a significant contribution to reducing process development turnaround time and improves productivity for next-generation devices.
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Wafer Chucks
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ARC, in addition to fabricating Wafer Chucks from aluminum, is also known for its ability to work in hard to machine materials such as hardened (50-62 Rockwell) metal alloys, fired ceramics, e.g. SiC and glasses. These materials are often ideal for semiconductor equipment applications due to their ability to hold critical dimensions and tolerances. ARC specializes in surface grinding and lapping these materials to precision flatness and parallelism specifications needed for semiconductor wafer chuck requirements.
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Wafer Test
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Silicon Turnkey Solution, Inc.
Most foundries provide wafers already probed to a set of DC parameters at room temperature to ensure they meet a basic subset of the package-part specification. Beyond this basic set of tests, more rigorous testing is often needed to meet specifications requiring die to be 100 percent probed, identify and segregate devices with higher performance levels and guarantee that parts will perform to a certain specification level.
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Wafer Testing
Trio Vertical
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SV TCL's TrioTM is a reliable solution for advanced wafer testing challenges, specifically full array and parallel probing. We offer a complete line of vertical probe card products, each designed for your unique application.
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Wafer Prober
Precio XL
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Fully automated 300mm wafer prober. The system achieves high productivity, excellent contact performance, improved cleanliness, and short lead time, and offers a number of high value-added functions as options.
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Ultrasonic Wafer Scanner
AutoWafer
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Installed in more wafer applications than all other automatic ultrasonic testing tools combined, AutoWafer provides a complete, production-ready wafer scanner for wafers from 100mm to 200mm, including multiple sizes in a single batch.
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Analysis
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External appearance due to non-destructive semiconductor · X-ray fluoroscopic observation, SAT observation, electrical operation confirmation, ESD fracture analysis, plastic opening observation of Chip, search for abnormal portions by EMS / OBIRCH, package (PKG) analysis, Please do not hesitate to contact us anything related to semiconductor analysis, such as observation by polishing / parallel polishing (ball and bump observation etc.), peeling observation of defective part, analysis of foreign matter by EDX · FT - IR etc.
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Inline Wafer Testing
IL-800
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Pre-process elimination of low-quality wafers using measured lifetime, trapping, and resistivity. Process control and optimization at dopant diffusion and nitride deposition steps.
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Wafer Internal Inspection System
INSPECTRA® IR Series
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An infrared internal defect inspection system has been added to the INSPECTRA® series.It is now possible to inspection with both infrared and visual light in one system.
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Wafer Cathodoluminescence Microscope
Säntis 300
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Attolight’s Quantitative CL-SEM offers “No Compromise” large field fast scanning simultaneous acquisition of SEM images, hyperspectral CL maps, and optical spectra. Smaller diameter wafers, or miscellaneously shaped substrates are manually loaded on intermediary 300mm susceptors subsequently handled automatically by the tool.
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MPI PA Wafer Probers
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MPI Photonics Automation is the industry-leading provider of turnkey wafer test and measurement solutions. We offer a complete line of high-performance wafer probers designed to address the diverse and complex needs of the Photonics, Optoelectronic, Semiconductor, and Laser industries.
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Chemical Analysis
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The chemists at IMR have numerous analytical tools at their disposal, all geared toward providing accurate, NIST traceable analyses of metals and process solutions. The staff is experienced, professional, and knowledgeable in the latest analytical techniques.
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Wafer Prober Networking System
PN-300
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The Wafer Prober Networking System PN-300 utilizes a database to facilitate data access from other systems and provides an environment that enables the user to edit data and handle processing. The system achieves wide-ranging compatibility by adopting standard hardware and operating system. In addition, it is equipped with an N-PAF (Network-based Prober Advanced Function) to provide robust support for wafer prober operation and maintenance.
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Corrosion Analysis
Resipod
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Resipod is a fully integrated 4-point Wenner probe, designed to measure the electrical resistivity of concrete in a completely non-destructive test. It is the most accurate instrument available, extremely fast and stable and packaged in a robust, waterproof housing designed to operate in a demanding site environment. The Resipod is the successor of the classic CNS Farnell Resistivity Meter.Surface resistivity measurement provides extremely useful information about the state of a concrete structure. Not only has it been proven to be directly linked to the likelihood of corrosion and the corrosion rate, recent studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between resistivity and chloride diffusion rate and even to determination of early compressive strength. This makes it one of the most versatile NDT methods for concrete.
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WDXRF Wafer Analyzer
2830 ZT
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The 2830 ZT wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) wafer analyzer offers the ultimate capability for measuring film thickness and composition. Designed specifically for the semiconductor and data storage industry, the 2830 ZT Wafer Analyzer enables the determination of layer composition, thickness, dopant levels and surface uniformity for a wide range of wafers up to 300 mm.
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Comprehensive Analysis
RemoteView™ PRO
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Our flagship thick-client imagery exploitation product, RemoteView Pro, provides analysts with premier analytical tools. Users are able to quickly enhance imagery and gain valuable perspective through analytical tools and extensions that are essential for mission planning and operational support. As the geospatial intelligence solution of choice, RemoteView has a long history of success across a broad range of users within the U.S. intelligence community, Department of Defense, and across analysis directorates in 27 countries.
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Grease Analysis
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Maintenance Reliability Group, LLC
MRG Labs follows grease sampling and analysis standards outlined in ASTM D7718 and ASTM D7918. Grease analysis is a valuable tool for determining the condition of the lubricant and discovering abnormal conditions in equipment that may otherwise lead to unexpected failures. Our customized grease test slates are designed to identify the specific failure modes that may be damaging the component.
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Wafer Probe Loadboards/PIB
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DTS has a full line of standard PIBs for all major tester platforms. Custom PIB designs can accommodate any test head, prober and manipulator configuration, including probe card changers, overhead direct dock setups and cable interfaces. DTS wafer test loadboards are compatible with a variety of pogo pin interface towers. All PIBs are constructed with impedance control, precision matched line lengths, full power and ground planes and both analog and digital resources to provide high quality signal integrity directly to the device.
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Signal Analysis
Synchronous Accumulation (Order Analysis)
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Order analysis is one of the most convenient and efficient methods for diagnostics and balancing of rotating mechanisms and transmission gears. With an RPM sensor and a vibration sensor, it is possible to study the time characteristics of gear vibration signals. It is a well-known fact that a signal from a vibration sensor is affected by signals from other sources. To tune out from the disturbing signals, the synchronous signal accumulation method is used. For each shaft rotation, the RPM sensor provides a rotation mark. This signal serves as a triggering strobe for the vibration sensor signal sweeping. The obtained signal sweeps are combined. All the sources of the signals related to the shaft frequency (frequency of rotation) are accumulated and increased in the accumulator linearly proportionally to the N number of rotations. All other signals that are not correlated with the shaft frequency are accumulated proportionally to N1/2 and in case of a greater number of averagings, the useful signal exceeds the interference level.
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Failure and Technology Analysis
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Failure analyses in order to clarify the failure cause soonest possible.From single device to the whole system - and from highly complex IC up to printed circuit board (PCB), mounting & interconnection technology and printed board assembly (PBA).
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Telecommunication Analysis
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Software-Defined WAN for the Enterprise Securely connect users and applications while radically reducing hardware.
