A fundamental component of modern electronic goods is the semiconductor. More powerful, faster and smaller processors are in constant demand for many services and goods because of the advent of the ...

Chipmakers are relying on machine learning for electroplating and wafer cleaning at leading-edge process nodes, augmenting traditional fault detection/classification and statistical process control in ...

Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) is a critical process in the semiconductor, LED wafer, and hard disk manufacturing industry and is used to achieve the substrate wafer's required planarity.

For decades, semiconductor manufacturers have used chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) as the primary technique for the smoothing and leveling (planarization) of dielectrics and metal layers. CMP ...

Use of machine learning and feed-forward neural networks presents a new and exciting opportunity to develop high-accuracy CMP models of complex, advanced deposition processes. Machine learning (ML), ...