Industry-leading processes & systems for Failure Analysis dry etching de-processing

Yield management is a key factor in semiconductor manufacturing. To improve yield, one key technique is the de-processing of a failed chip or wafer to find and analyse the failure point in order to eliminate it. 

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For analysis or defect identification to be performed the device must be suitably prepared, this becomes more challenging as device architectures become ever more 3-dimensional. Plasma assisted etch and deposition are used to ensure accurate, quickly achieved results.

• Problems throughout the structure can be traced and analysed with fast and clean removal of Polymide, IMD and metals allowing access to underlying layers
• Decorating samples by thin film deposition greatly enhances accuracy of TEM and SEM analysis

Oxford Instruments’ flexible Failure Analysis (FA) tools allow a wide range of processes, able to process small die or packaged devices through to 300mm wafers. Well controlled processing means that there is no damage to the metal conducting tracks.