Park Systems visits downtown San Jose to hold a luncheon alongside the 2017 SPIE Advanced Lithography conference. After the world's premier lithography event kicks off its programming on Monday, February 27, join us just a block away from the San Jose Convention Center at Morton's The Steakhouse for lunch and to learn about the latest advances in nanoscale characterization for the semiconductor industry

•  Event Date and Time : Monday, February 27 — 12:00p to 2:00p

•  Venue : Morton's The Steakhouse — San Jose, CA (Map)

Morton's The Steakhouse, San Jose

The featured speaker at the luncheon will be Dr. Ardavan Zandiatashbar, Technical Accounts Manager at Park Systems. Dr. Zandiatashbar will speak about the advances Park has made to atomic force profiler (AFP) design and the benefits these next-generation tools have in tackling the challenges faced by foundries today.

Dr. Ardavan Zandiatashbar
Technical Accounts Manager, Park Systems

Automated AFM for Small-Scale and Large-Scale Surface Profiling in CMP Applications

As the feature size is shrinking in the foundries, the need for inline high resolution surface profiling with versatile capabilities is increasing. One of the important areas of this need is chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process. We introduce a new generation of atomic force profiler (AFP) using decoupled scanners design. The system is capable of providing small-scale profiling using XY scanner and large-scale profiling using the slider. Decoupled scanners design enables enhanced vision which helps minimizing the positioning error for locations of interest in case of highly polished dies. Non-Contact mode imaging is another feature of interest in this system which is used for surface roughness measurement, automatic defect review, and deep trench measurement. Examples of the measurements performed using the atomic force profiler is demonstrated.

Park NX-Wafer
Low Noise, High Throughput Atomic Force Profiler with Automatic Defect Review

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